title: Young Men & Fire
author: Norman Maclean
description: Norman Maclean grew up in and around Missoula, Montana, where he worked in logging camps and for the U.S. Forest Service. He attended Dartmouth College and taught English for forty-six years at the University of Chicago.
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  NORMAN MACLEAN was born in Clarinda, Iowa, in 1902 and grew up in Missoula,
  Montana. He worked for many years in logging camps and for the United States
  Forest Service before beginning his academic career. A scholar of Shakespeare
  and the Romantic poets, Maclean was William Rainey Harper Professor of English
  at the University of Chicago until his retirement in 1973. His acclaimed book
  _A River Runs Through It and Other Stories_ was published by the University of
  Chicago Press in 1976. Norman Maclean died in 1990.
  
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  # _Young Men & Fire_
  
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  **NORMAN MACLEAN**
  
  THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS
  
  _Chicago and London_
  
  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637  
  The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London  
  (C) 1972 by The University of Chicago  
  All rights reserved. Published 1992  
  Paperback edition 1993  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
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