Norman Maclean Edited by Ron McFarland and Hugh Nichols Confluence Press, 214 pages, $17.95 When he was growing up, Norman Maclean often met in the evening with his brother and two friends on the s… ...

Norman Maclean's novella, ... Norman, and Norman's future wife, Jesse Burns, who in the movie version of "A River Runs Through It," meets Norman at a Fourth of July festival in Wolf Creek.

But one “stormy fall day,” Norman handed to John and his wife Frances, who has been a feature writer for the Sun-Times, a 100-some-page typed manuscript. The storm kept them inside and they read.

The late Norman Maclean was many things: ... Soon after his wife Jessie died from cancer in 1968, Maclean retired from teaching and could not foresee the literary success to come. In retrospect, ...

Norman Maclean was a man of western Montana and its Big Blackfoot River. He listened to stories from deep in its currents that no one else could hear. ... and terrible loneliness following the death ...

John Maclean, the son of Norman Maclean, wrote “Home Waters,” which is a worthy non-fiction companion to his father’s classic, “A River Runs Through It.” ...

To me, Norman Maclean’s book, more poetry than narrative, is a triumph of American literature. Only my wife’s good sense kept his surname from higher billing on the boy’s birth certificate.

On Norman Maclean. I appreciated Kathryn Schulz’s evocative piece on the writer Norman Maclean, especially because of my acquaintance with him (Books, July 8th & 15th).I met Maclean in my second ...

What makes “Norman Maclean: A Life of Letters and Rivers” (University of Washington, $26.95) such a pleasure to read is that it’s written by an acolyte of sorts, Atlanta author Rebecca ...

Norman Maclean's novella, ... Norman, and Norman's future wife, Jesse Burns, who in the movie version of "A River Runs Through It," meets Norman at a Fourth of July festival in Wolf Creek.