Steve Pyne is a professor in
the Biology & Society Program at Arizona State University. He has
written many noted books, including How the Canyon Became Grand: A
Short History (New York: Viking, 1998) and Year of the Fires: The
Story of the Great Fires of 1910 (New York: Viking, 2001). His best
known works are from his "Cycle of Fire" suite, a survey of
fire and humanity around the world, published in the Weyerhaeuser Environmental
Books series. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship (1988), a Fulbright
Fellowship (Sweden), and two NEH Fellowships in addition to numerous literary
honors. The Forest History Society named his book Fire in America:
A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1982) the best book published in 1981/1982.
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