Nick Reding, author of The Last Cowboys at the End of the World, is one of "the top ten breakthrough writers you need to know."
-- from the cover of Book Magazine |
Nick Reding was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and began flyfishing at the age
of seven. By the time he'd graduated from highschool, he had flyfished
extensively in Idaho, Colorado, Alaska, Argentina, and Florida. He received
his B.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature from Northwestern
University in 1994, and worked as a flyfishing guide during the summers in
Colorado. In the winter of 1995, he worked as a guide at one of Chile's first
flyfishing lodges, La Posada de los Farios, where he first got the idea
for a nonfiction book about the Chilean gauchos.
In August of 1995, he moved to New York to accept a University Fellowship in
Creative Writing at NYU, where he eventually got his M.F.A. and taught
undergraduate fiction and poetry. In 1998, he quit his job as a magazine
editor to return to Chilean Patagonia and live among the people about whom he
wrote "The Last Cowboys at the End of the World."
Nick still lives in New York, where he works as a freelance journalist. A
national book tour for "Last Cowboys" begins on March 6, 2002, in St. Louis,
before going to Chicago, San Francisco, L.A., and Missoula, Bozeman, and
Helena, Montana.
Contact Nick Reding: nick@thelastcowboys.com
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