Young Men and Fire
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Young Men and Fire
| Author | Norman Maclean |
|---|---|
| Published | 1992 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Norman Maclean’s reconstruction of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana, where a crew of smokejumpers was overtaken by a blowup on a steep grass slope — a minute-by-minute account of how fast the fire moved and why the men could not outrun it, reported precisely enough that the prose itself does the explaining. |
Young Men and Fire
Where I heard about it
- University of Austin — assigned in Writing and the English Language, the one nonfiction work on an otherwise fiction-and-memoir syllabus, on its Fall 2025 reading list, November 2025. Full curriculum: UATX Fall Reading List.
About this edition
Maclean spent the last years of his life on it; the University of Chicago Press published it posthumously in 1992.
Connections
- UATX Fall Reading List — the curriculum this was assigned in.
- The University of Austin — the institution whose course list this is.
- Narrative — the craft question the course is asking.
- Storytelling
- Literature
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.