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Howard Frank Mosher
Described by the Los Angeles Times as "a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison," Howard Frank Mosher is the author of seven novels, including The Fall of the Year and Disappearances, and one work of nonfiction, North Country, a travel memoir. Three of his novels have been made into feature films: A Stranger in the Kingdom, which starred Martin Sheen and Ernie Hudson; Disappearances, which starred Kris Kristofferson and Billy Connolly, and Where the Rivers Flow North, which starred Rip Torn and Michael J. Fox. Mosher has received a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, the American Civil Liberties Union Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the New England Book Award. The True Account will be #6 on the Book Sense 76 Top Ten list for May/June. Born in upstate New York, Howard Frank Mosher is a longtime resident of Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, where he lives with Phillis, his wife of nearly four decades — the inspiration for Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories in The True Account. They have two children.
The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis & Clark & Kinneson Expeditions
In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson -- schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and explorer -- sets out with his nephew, Ticonderoga, to race Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Pacific. Along the way True and Ti encounter Daniel Boone and his six-foot-two spinster daughter, Flame Danielle; fight and trick a renegade army out to stop Lewis's expedition; invent baseball with the Nez Perce; hold a high-stakes rodeo with Sacagawea's Shoshone relatives; and outwit True's lifelong adversary, the Gentleman from Vermont, a.k.a. the devil himself. And when a beautiful and mysterious Blackfoot girl named Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories enters the tale, things start to get really interesting. The True Account, which Lawrence Millman calls "part riotous adventure, part book of wonders, and part historical travesty," is the hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking story of a man "whose imagination is unfettered by either convention or fact, whose hopefulness and good nature yield to no force, and whose ways and stays rank second to none in the history of the world."
Photo © Martin O'Neill courtesy of Vermont Magazine
Howard Frank Mosher's Summer Reading List
Sledding on Hospital Hill
Poems by Leland Kinsey
These wonderful poems from the "Northeast Kingdom" of Vermont abound with the compelling, never-before-told stories of some of the most independent and fascinating people I've ever encountered, many of them straight from Leland Kinsey's own seventh-generation northern Vermont family.
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Every year I read this uniquely American celebration of what mattered most in life to our greatest essayist. This year I'll spend part of July in Concord, MA, with HDT.
Compass Points
by Edward Hoagland
Speaking of great essayists, I'll be enjoying every sentence of this endlessly intelligent memoir by a writer hailed as "the Thoreau of our times" (Washington Post) and "our finest living essayist" (New York Times Book Review).
An Autobiography
by Anthony Trollope
My editor recommended this memoir of a very fine, and often overlooked, novelist and contemporary of Charles Dickens.
The Clearing
by Tim Gautreaux
Can't wait to get back to this marvelous novel of two very different brothers running a sawmill in thedangerous swamps of Louisiana just after World War I.
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