Contributor: Stephen Pyne

Stephen J. Pyne was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in 1979-1980 and will return to the Center in 2002-2003 to write a history of fire in Canada. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is presently affiliated with the Biology and Society Program within the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. Among his many books are Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon (1989), How the Canyon Became Grand (1998), and Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 (2001).

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