Phillip ConnorsPhilip Connors was born in Iowa and grew up on a farm in southwest Minnesota. After graduating from the University of Montana, he worked for several years at the Wall Street Journal, mostly as an editor on the Leisure & Arts page. In 202 he left the paper for a seasonal job with the United States Forest Service in New Mexico. His first book, Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout, was named the best nature book of the year by Amazon and won a National Outdoor Book Award, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, the Reading the West Award for Nonfiction, and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition. He lives in southern New Mexico. Read More Read Less