Fire Season - Wilson, Miles
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This novel is set on a US Forest Service firefighting crew stationed in Southern California in the mid-1960s. In its fidelity to the physical, emotional, and social world of the crews, Fire Season offers an account of the fiery intersection of the human and the natural world—an ongoing encounter that has decisively shaped the natural history—and, therefore, the human history—of the West.

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This novel is set on a US Forest Service firefighting crew stationed in Southern California in the mid-1960s. In its fidelity to the physical, emotional, and social world of the crews, Fire Season offers an account of the fiery intersection of the human and the natural world—an ongoing encounter that has decisively shaped the natural history—and, therefore, the human history—of the West.
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MILES WILSON served three fire seasons (1964, 1965, 1967) as a memeber of the Dalton Hotshots, a U.S. Forest Service Interregional Fire Crew based on the Angeles National Forest in California. While serving with the Dalton Hotshots, Wilson received a Bachelors degree in English at Pomona College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of Oregon. He is the author of two previous books, Line of Fall and Harm. Wilson is the recipient of numerous awards for his previous publications, including the John Simmons Short Fiction Award from the University of Iowa Press for Line of Fall and the Violet Crown Book Award from the Writer's League of Texas/Barnes & Noble for Harm. Wilson currently resides in San Marcos, Texas and teaches English at Texas State Univeristy.