Mary Clearman Blew
Author · 9 books
Mary Clearman Blew is the author of the acclaimed essay collection All but the Waltz and the memoir Balsamroot. She is the editor of When Montana and I Were Young: A Memoir of a Frontier Childhood, available in a Bison Books edition. Her most recent novel, Jackalope Dreams, is also available in a Bison Books edition. She is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and has twice won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, once in fiction and once in nonfiction. She is also the winner of a Western Heritage Award and the Western Literature Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award.
Books
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
Work from 1970 to the Present
2007
Lambing Out and Other Stories
1977
Jackalope Dreams
2008
Bone Deep in Landscape
Writing, Reading, and Place
1999
Balsamroot
A Memoir
1994
This Is Not the Ivy League
A Memoir
2011
All But the Waltz
1991
Think of Horses
A Novel
2022
Sweep Out the Ashes
2019
