Fire Season by Philip Connors

Fire Season by Philip Connors

"Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau--and I loved it."

--J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar

"[Connors's] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading."

--Walter Kirn, author of Up in the Air

Phillip Connors is a major new voice in American nonfiction, and his remarkable debut, Fire Season, is destined to become a modern classic. An absorbing chronicle of the days and nights of one of the last fire lookouts in the American West, Fire Season is a marvel of a book, as rugged and soulful as Matthew Crawford's bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, and it immediately places Connors in the august company of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Aldo Leopold, Barry Lopez, and others in the respected fraternity of hard-boiled nature writers.

Fire Season, written by Philip Connors, earned the Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the Sigurd F. Hansen Award. The Reading the West Book Award, as well as the Olson Nature Writing Award. Connors' work has also been published in Harper's, n+1, the Paris Review, and other publications. He currently resides in New Mexico.