She wrote that novel while in graduate school in her late twenties, during which time she also led a life more romantic to many of us than grad school: she guided river trips and hunting expeditions and generally spent as much time out of doors as possible.Įven after she sold Cowboys, she drove around the West and lived out of her Corolla with her dog, her North Face tent, and this idea that she needed to do something important with her $21,000 advance – which, her agent said, she ought not spend all on hiking boots. Houston is widely recognized for her fiction, beginning with her first book, Cowboys Are My Weakness. Also, just what it’s like to live in the high country, and in the Southwestern Colorado high country in particular.” “A lot of events are going to be really familiar to people in the area, including the West Fork Fire, which plays a big role in the book. “It’s a book that is really wholly dedicated to Southwestern Colorado in so many ways,” Houston said in a phone interview. She is holding a talk and booksigning at Maria’s Bookshop to celebrate the release of Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country. But this Tues., March 19, is the first time she’s rolling into town with a memoir under her belt (and, more importantly, on bookshelves). After all, she lives just over the Continental Divide in Creede, and her five previous books are popular both with critics and with local readers. Celebrated author Pam Houston is no stranger to these parts.
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