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'Woodsburner" Book Launch at BookPeople

Jan.21.2009

'Woodsburner" Book Launch at BookPeople

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Woodsburner

Set against the background of a forest fire started by Henry David Thoreau, Woodsburner chronicles the lives of Oddmund Hus, a lovesick Norwegian immigrant farm hand, Eliot Calvert, a struggling bookseller and aspiring playwright, and Caleb Dowdy, a fire and brimstone preacher, whose stories intersect over the course of a single day: April 30, 1844. As the characters confront...

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May.26.2009

Woodsburner

Published by National Public Radio

"For Independence Day: A Story Of The Fireworks That Changed American Thought" True fact: One year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau accidentally...

About John

John Pipkin's debut novel, Woodsburner, will be published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in April 2009. Set in Concord, Massachusetts in the spring of 1844, Woodsburner tells the story of a forest fire set by Henry David Thoreau, a year before he decides to live...

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Trust for Public Land

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Writers' League of Texas