Samuel Western

Born in Vermont in 1956 and ended up in Wyoming with lots of travelling between.

Books, music, the human condition, and the outdoors have long been my wellsprings. My fiction is often distilled to the point of poetry and deals with deep issues: faith, values, and the difficulties of meaningful change. My non-fiction attempts to address what historian Arnold Toynbee called the “deeper, slower movements that, in the end, make history.” I have a poor attention span when it comes to modern or social culture, although to paraphrase Thoreau, nothing necessary offends me. I am a curious person.