Pete Fromm is a five time winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Literary Award for his novels IF NOT FOR THIS, AS COOL AS I AM and HOW ALL THIS STARTED, a story collection, DRY RAIN, and the memoir, INDIAN CREEK CHRONICLES. Pete is the author of four other short story collections and has published over two hundred stories in magazines.
His new memoir, THE NAMES OF THE STARS, is not only a story of wilderness and bears, but is also a trek through a life lived at its edges, showing how an impulsive kid leaping into the wilds transformed into a father without losing his love for the wild places, or much of his inability to think before leaping. From loon calls echoing across Northwood lakes, to the grim realities of lifeguarding in the Nevada desert, through the isolation of Indian Creek and years spent running the Snake and Rio Grande as a ranger for the National Park Service, Pete seeks out the source of this passion for wildness, as well as exploring fatherhood and mortality and all the costs and risks and rewards of a life lived on its own terms.