John Gierach is a freelance writer living in northern Colorado. He is the author of eighteen books including Trout Bum, Sex, Death and Flyfishing, Another Lousy Day in Paradise and Standing in a River Waving a Stick - some of which have also been published in Norway, Japan and France - as well as numerous magazine articles, essays and columns. He is a regular columnist for Fly Rod & Reel and Redstone Review and has been the outdoor correspondent for the Longmont Daily Times-Call newspaper in Longmont, Colorado for the last twenty years. Gierach will appear on the panel: "Catching the Big One: Writers on Trout" scheduled for 10:45 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Nicolaysen Art Museum. He will be available to sign books after the panel.
Books:
Motel Thought in the 70s - Lodestar Press (poetry) - 1976
Signs of Life -Cherry Vale Editions (poetry) - 1977
Flyfishing the High Country - Pruett Publishing - 1984
Trout Bum - Pruett Publishing - 1986
The View From Rat Lake - Pruett Publishing - 1988
Fly Fishing Small Streams - Stackpole Books - 1989
Sex, Death and Flyfishing - Simon & Schuster - 1990
Where the Trout Are All As Long As Your Leg - Lyons Press - 1991
Even Brook Trout Get The Blues - Simon & Schuster - 1992
Dances With Trout - Simon & Schuster - 1994
Another Lousy Day In Paradise - Simon & Schuster - 1996
Fishing Bamboo - Lyons Press - 1997
Standing in a River Waving a Stick - Simon & Schuster - 1999
Death, Taxes and Leaky Waders - Simon & Schuster - 2000
Good Flies - Lyons Press - 2000
At the Grave of the Unknown Fisherman - Simon & Schuster - 2003
Still Life with Brook Trout - Simon & Schuster - 2005
Fool's Paradise - Simon & Schuster - 2008