Rick Bass  1958
Major Works
- The Book of Yaak (1996)
Non-fiction
- In the Loyal Mountains (1995)
non-fiction
- The Lost Grizzlies (1995)
non-fiction
- Platte River (1994)
non-fiction
- The NineMile Wolves (1992)
non-fiction
- Winter: Notes from Montana
(1991) non-fiction
- Wild to the Heart (1990) non-fiction
- The Watch : Stories 1997
- Where the Sea
Used to Be (novel) 1998
- Colter: The True Story
of the Best Dog I Ever Had 2000
- The Hermit's Story: Stories
2003
- The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness 1997
- The Diezmo: A Novel 2005
- The Lives of Rocks (short stories,
2007)
- Why I Came West: A Memoir (2008)
Photo above by Nicole Blaisedell
from Bass's The Lives of Rocks book
jacket.
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Rick Bass: A Biography
By Jonny Tahai (SHS)
Rick Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 7, 1958.
Bass's father was a geologist. As a young boy, Rick became
quickly intrigued by the natural world. He received his
B.S. at Utah
State University in 1979 and married Elizabeth Hughes. They
moved to Mississippi where Rick became an oil and gas
geologist. Some of his essays in Wild to the
Heart discuss Mississippi.
Bass received the PEN/Nelson Algren Award in 1988 for
his first short story,  "The
Watch." Because of his love for nature, he decided
to move in 1987 to the Yaak Valley in Montana with his wife
and two daughters. While living in Montana, Rick has made
and still is making attempts to save the last few acres of roadless
land in the Yaak. Rick won the James Jones Fellowship
Award for his recent novel called Where the Sea Used
To Be. Rick has also made a trip to California
to ask for help and wilderness support. Rick's work mainly
concentrates on the natural world and how close it is to the
heart. He continues to be an active environmentalist,
a member of the Sierra Club, the Montana Wilderness Association,
the Cabinet Resources Group, Round River Conservation Studies,
and the Yaak Valley Forest Council. He has published articles
in magazines such as Field and Stream,
Sports Afield, Gray’s
Sporting Journal, Outdoor Life,
and others.
UPDATE 2008: Rick Bass's The Hermit’s
Story was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the
Year in 2000. The Lives of Rocks was
a finalist for the Story Prize and was
chosen as a Best Book of the Year in 2006 by the Rocky Mountain
News. Bass’s stories have also been awarded the Pushcart
Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The
Best American Short Stories. He continues to live with his family
on a ranch in Montana and is actively engaged in saving the
American wilderness. His papers are available for research at
Texas State.To date Rick Bass has written twenty-three books.
His most recent book is Why I Came West: A Memoir
(2008).
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A Review of the
short story "Antlers"
By Jonny Tahai (SHS)
 In the short story "Antlers"
by Rick Bass, a man talks about his life in small, secluded town.
He describes a few of the townspeople and what they are like. The
story starts when the main character talks about the town's annual
Halloween party. The people of the town gather, listen to music,
dance, get drunk, put on antlers, and have a great time. When the
night is over, the people that need a ride to their homes usually tie a
rope to the back of someone's truck and ski home.
There
is a local bar in the town that almost every guy goes to. The
bartender is a women named Suzie. Suzie has been with almost
every man in all the town except Randy. She believes that
Randy is really frightening. She hates hunting, especially bow
hunting, because she believes it is pointless and cruel. That is why
she doesn't like Randy. Randy  is
the only person in the town that bow hunts, and Suzie absolutely can't
stand it. Suzie always criticizes all the men about hunting and
how cruel it is. The men just give her a big hoo-rah and drink
some beer.
The main character, who has spent the most time with Suzie,
still has feelings for her. He knew that Suzie was going
to leave him, but still it hurt him. Eventually, after
she leaves her last boyfriend, she comes back to the main
character. The story is a very vivid story of a man that lives
in a small, quiet valley. Even though the town is
small, a lot goes on in that town.
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Related Websites
 Reviews
of Bass's novel Where the Sea Used to Be
are here.
Ole
Miss writers site gives complete information about Rick
Bass.
Acclaimed
writer Rick Bass blends art and activism: INTERVIEW BY ALDEN
MUDGE in Bookpage.
Texas
State has Rick Bass's papers.
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Bibliography
Jane Fritz - Rick Bass: A writer of the Wild
Places - (available)
http://www.keokee.com/sptmag97~online/rickbass.html -10-28-98.
Elisabeth Sherwin - Save the Yaak pleads nature
writer Bass - (available) http://dcn.davis.ca.us/g/gizmo/rick.html
- 10-28-98. KM - Rick Bass
- (available) http://cedar.olemiss.edu/depts/english/ms-writers/dir/bass_rick/
10-27-98.
Rick Bass: Biography - wysiwyg://44://www.geocites.com/athens/forum/6420/biopage.html
11-4-98.
James Jones Society Selects Two for first Novel
Fellowship Award - http://www.wilkes.edu/wilkesdocs/univrel/JonesAward95.html
- 11-28-98.
Jordan Mackay - Bass, Master - http://www.epnet.com/egi-bin/epwlurch/pag...xrecs=10/reccount=1/ft=1/startrec=1/pic=1
- 11-29-98.
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