Written on Water: Essays on Idaho Rivers

by Mary Clearman Blew (Editor)

Book by Blew, Mary Clearman

Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

About the author

Mary Clearman Blew is the author of the acclaimed essay collection All but the Waltz and the memoir Balsamroot. She is the editor of When Montana and I Were Young: A Memoir of a Frontier Childhood, available in a Bison Books edition. Her most recent novel, Jackalope Dreams, is also available in a Bison Books edition. She is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and has twice won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, once in fiction and once in nonfiction. She is also the winner of a Western Heritage Award and the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award.

Reviews

[Patrice · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up while passing through Coeur D'Alene on my way south to St. Maries. What better way to learn about a place than by reading the poetry and literature of it? This is a beautiful collection by some of Idaho's best writers.