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Rick Bass is an American writer and environmental activist. He was born on March 7, 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas. He is best known for his short stories and novels about the American West. He has written over twenty books, including the novel The Diezmo, which won the PEN/Nelson Algren Award for Fiction in 1989. Bass attended the University of Arkansas, where he earned a B.A. in English in 1980. He then attended the University of Montana, where he earned an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1983. Bass has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Montana since 1988. He has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Iowa, and the University of Wyoming. Bass is a member of the board of directors of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, an environmental organization dedicated to protecting the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. He is also a member of the board of directors of the National Parks Conservation Association. Bass is married to the writer Elizabeth Hughes, and they have two children. He currently lives in Missoula, Montana.

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Occupation Writer and environmental activist
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 7 March, 1958
Birthday 7 March
Birthplace Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2016

Bass won The Story Prize for books published in 2016 for his collection of new and selected stories, For a Little While. He won the 1995 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for his novel in progress, Where the Sea Used to Be. He was a finalist for the Story Prize in 2006 for his short story collection The Lives of Rocks. He was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award (autobiography) for Why I Came West (2009). He was also awarded the General Electric Younger Writers Award, a PEN/Nelson Algren Award Special Citation for fiction, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.

2013

His papers are held at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University and Texas State University–San Marcos.

1987

Bass was born in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, the son of a Geologist, and he studied petroleum geology at Utah State University. He grew up in Houston, and started writing short stories on his lunch breaks while working as a petroleum Geologist in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1987, he moved with his wife, the artist Elizabeth Hughes Bass, to the remote Yaak Valley, where he works to protect his adopted home from roads and logging. Rick serves on the board of both the Yaak Valley Forest Council and Round River Conservation Studies. He continues to give readings, write, and teach around the country and world.

1958

Rick Bass (born March 7, 1958) is an American writer and an environmental activist.