John Norman Maclean
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John Norman Maclean is the son of Montana writer Norman Maclean, best known for his work "A River Runs Through It."
John is best known for his 1999 book, Fire on the Mountain, about the fatal South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain in 1994. The book was the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association's best nonfiction title of 1999.
His second book, Fire and Ashes: On the Frontlines of American Wildfire, was published in June 2003 by Henry Holt & Co. and named a "best book" of the year by the Chicago Tribune. It chronicles the 1953 Rattlesnake Fire on the Mendocino National Forest in California, the 1999 Sadler Fire in Nevada, and the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire in Montana. The Mann Gulch Fire was the subject of Norman Maclean's Young Men and Fire, a book published posthumously with the assistance of the author's son John.
John Maclean was a writer, editor, and reporter for the Chicago Tribune for 30 years. His third book, The Thirtymile Fire, is due out early in 2007 and chronicles the 2001 fire on the Okanogan National Forest, in the North Cascade Range of Washington. The fire killed four firefighters and injured several others.
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