Its a river that immediately presents to the traveler, I am a grandfather spirit. For this work he was awarded the Missouri Council on the Humanities Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement. American - Writer Born: AugI have not been on any river that has more of a distinctive personality than does the Missouri River. Reflecting on the journey, he also discusses writing, publishing, personal relationships, and many other aspects of writing the book. William Least Heat-Moon, best-selling author and noted lecturer, was born on August 27, 1939, in Kansas City, Missouri, to Ralph G. It was hard to categorize yet sat on the bestseller list for nearly a year.

Blue Highways surprised the publishing world. Heat-Moon drove the back roads designated as blue lines in his Rand McNally Atlas.

In 2014 he published Writing 'Blue Highways', an account of how he wrote his most successful book, Blue Highways (1982). It’s William Least Heat-Moon’s account of a three-month, 14,000-mile road trip he took in a converted mini-van he called Ghost Dancing. He is also the author of PrairyErth (1991), an in-depth study of the history and people of Chase County, Kansas River-Horse (1999), in which he describes a four-month boat trip, in which he sailed almost exclusively on the US waterways from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the books Columbus in the Americas (2002), Roads to Quoz (2008) and Here, There, Elsewhere (2013) as well as his first fictional novel, Celestial Mechanics (2017). He also worked as an English teacher at the university. in English, as well as a BA in Photojournalism. Heat-Moon attended the University of Missouri, where he earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. Her nickname Least Heat-Moon came from his father: “My name is Heat Moon, your older brother is Little Heat Moon. He is the author of several books on Indian travel throughout the United States. American travel writer of English, Irish and Native American descent from the Osage Nation.

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