David Guterson

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Guterson's novel Snow Falling on Cedars

David Guterson (born May 4, 1956) is an American author and magazine journalist, formerly a high school English teacher.

He is best known as the author of the novel Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), which won many awards, including the 1995 PEN/Faulkner Award. It was adapted for a 1999 film of the same title, directed by Scott Hicks and starring Ethan Hawke. In 2001, Guterson's novel was one of the targets of B.R. Myers's "A Reader's Manifesto", an unflattering critique of contemporary literary fiction.

Guterson's 2003 novel, Our Lady of the Forest, is about a fictional Marian apparition witnessed by a teenage girl in Washington.

Guterson was born in Seattle, Washington, and now lives on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. He has four children, all of whom were educated initially at home. Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense (1992) is his account of why he and his wife taught their children at home and out in the world rather than sending them to school.

He is the brother of Mary Guterson, author of the 2005 novel We Are All Fine Here.