tell them where to go." Two or three years after being rejected by Alfred A. Knopf, Maclean received a letter from a senior New York City editor, asking whether Alfred A. Knopf, "could have the privilege of getting first crack", at Maclean's next book. MacLean wrote back, "If it should come to pass that the world comes to a place when Alfred A. Knopf is the only publishing company left and I am the only author, then that will be the end of the world of books." Death Maclean spent the last years of his life attempting to write a creative non-fiction book about the 13 smokejumpers who lost their lives fighting the 1949 Mann Gulch Forest Fire. Maclean also collaborated with several others on adapting A River Runs Through It into a screenplay. He died in Chicago on August 2, 1990. At his own request, Maclean's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered over the mountains of Montana. Legacy Maclean's manuscript on the Mann Gulch fire was published posthumously as Young Men and Fire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992. In 1991, a renovated church retirement home was turned into an undergraduate dormitory on the University of Chicago campus named Maclean House. Maclean House's mascot was the "Stormin' Normans" in honor of its namesake. The dorm was closed after the 2015–2016 academic year, subsequently sold, and turned into apartments. In 2008, the University of Chicago Press published a new compendium of unpublished and some previously published works, The Norman Maclean Reader. The anthology included parts of a never-finished book about George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn which Maclean had worked on from 1959 to 1963. Publishers Weekly gave the book a respectful review in the summer of 2008, remarking, "Readers of the two earlier books will find, as Weltzien [Alan Weltzien, the book's editor] phrases it, 'new biographical insights into one of the most remarkable and unexpected careers in American letters.'" Literary works Books 1940: The Theory of Lyric Poetry from the Renaissance to Coleridge 1943: A Manual of Instruction in Military Maps and Aerial Photographs (with Everett C. Olson) 1976: A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (Illustrated by Barry Moser in 1989) 1992: Young Men and Fire Articles and essays 1952: Two essays—(1) "From Action to Image: Theories of the Lyric in the Eighteenth Century" and (2)