XZRS: WILLIAM DIETRICH - The Dakota Cipher
Jan 27, 2019 ·
42m 13s
William Dietrich grew up near Puget Sound in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and like so many writers of the Pacific Northwest, it is geography, a sense of place, and...
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William Dietrich grew up near Puget Sound in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and like so many writers of the Pacific Northwest, it is geography, a sense of place, and the natural and human environment that flows through his writing. The influence of dramatic landscapes on people infects not only his non-fiction but his novels, set in Antarctica, the Australian Outback, the barbarian fringes of the Roman Empire, the sands of the Middle East, or frontier America. The Pulitzer-winning journalist's non-fiction has been widely used in university classes and his fiction has been sold into twenty-eight languages. Dietrich was born on Sept. 29, 1951 in Tacoma, WA, graduated from Mount Tahoma High School during culturally tumultuous 1969, and attended Fairhaven College, an experimental liberal arts division of Western Washington University. Interest in writing led him to journalism at Western, and his first job was covering agricultural Skagit County for the Bellingham, WA, Herald. He got his literary start chronicling "Berry-Dairy Days" and other such modest events. As proof that life moves in circle -- or at least that his own life has not progressed very far -- Dietrich moved back to the same area a quarter-century later, now residing only twenty miles from that first bureau office. In 2006, he took a half-time position as an assistant professor teaching environmental journalism and writing at Western. He considers himself fortunate to have a corner of the world he can truly call home. - www.williamdietrich.com
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