Scott MacFarlane

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The author resides in the Skagit River Valley of western Washington with his ever-supportive wife, Brenda, also an artist.

His personal threads of inspiration for The Bone Shrine Crime series include being a transit operator for 12+ years. A sundry flow of on-the-bus surprises often spark his muse.

He served as the founding executive director of the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center in The Dalles, Oregon in the 1990s. This helped anchor Mary, Joe and Biff. The three key teen characters in the series came of age helping create the new museum.

In 1982, he appeared in Paramount Pictures, “An Officer and a Gentleman,” when he portrayed a U.S. Naval Air Officer candidate in Sgt. Foley’s (Lou Gosset, Jr.) platoon.

MacFarlane attended the University of
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Average rating: 3.77 · 22 ratings · 8 reviews · 3 distinct works
The Hippie Narrative: A Lit...

3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
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The Bone Shrine

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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WHO?: Book Two, The Bone Sh...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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