1st Edition
Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs through It” The Search for Beauty
Biography
George H. Jensen is a Professor Emeritus with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. His books include Personality and the Teaching of Composition (with John K. DiTiberio, 1989), Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous: A Rhetorical Analysis (2000), Identities Across Texts (2002), and The Ethics of Nonfiction: Rhetoric, Ethos, and Identity (2023). In addition these scholarly works, he has written Some of the Words are Theirs: A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family (2009). He currently lives in Roanoke, Virginia.
Heidi Skurat Harris is an Associate Professor and the Graduate Coordinator with the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She is co-author (with Michael Greer) of Multimedia in the College Classroom: Improve Learning and Connect with Students in Online and Hybrid Classes (2024). She is also the lead editor of the Bedford Bibliography of Research in Online Writing Instruction (2017). She has published creative nonfiction and research on professional development.
" While reading Jensen and Harris, it's fascinating, inspiring, and sometimes downright disorienting to witness the story ["A River Runs through It"] develop from its most primitive state into its most beautiful and refined shape......Jensen and Harris have written a brilliant book that may inspire writers and serious Maclean readers all over the English-speaking world."
--Jim Hepworth, The Limberlost Review, 2025 Edition
