Thomas McGuane is the author of short fiction, screenplays, essays and several highly acclaimed novels, including The Sporting Club, The Bushwacked Piano, Ninety-two in the Shade, which was nominated for the National Book Award; and, most recently, The Longest Silence- A Life in Fishing. He was born in Michigan and now lives with his family in McLeod, Montana.
One of the most original American novelists on either side of the Mississippi * Time * One of America's most important literary writers, whose prose style has been compared to such American sensibilities as Hemingway and Faulkner * Los Angeles Herald Examiner * I don't know of another writer who can walk Thomas McGuane's literary high wire...He can describe the sky, a bird, a rock, the dawn, with such grace that you want to go see for your self; then he can zip to a scene so funny that it makes you laugh out loud * New York Times Book Review * The vivid characterisations of his snapshot prose remain startlingly original and exact... Chilling, bleak, and resonant. McGuane is an inventive writer, and a gifted stylist * Guardian *