Rearing a Young Writer ...
In order to write about life first you must live it.
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—Ernest Hemmingway
About Les
Les AuCoin, a retired nine-term U.S. Congressman from Oregon, is an author, essayist, ex-newspaper columnist, and public radio commentator. He was a co-author of the Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy, an anthology and is working on his first...
Causes Les AuCoin Supports
ACLU, National Public Radio, our local food bank, NARAL, Southern Poverty Law Center, the Sierra Club, Trout Unlimited, The Bozeman Symphony.
Les’s Favorite Books
I know Why The Cage Bird Sings, Plainsong, The Woman and the Ape, A Flag For Sunrise, Quest For Karla trilogy (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; Smiley's People;...
My Granddaughter, Morgan, and me
Morgan (11) aspires to a writing life, too. Last year, one of her poems was published in a national anthology of poetry by gradeschool children. We were all way proud ...