Shakespeare & Co. is pleased to host a reading by celebrated author John B. Wright on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 7:00pm. Wright will read from his new novel Fire Scars (University of Nevada Press, May 2023). This event is free and open to the public.

John B. Wright is a geographer and conservationist with 50 years of experience in Montana. “Jack” has worked as a land-use planning director, conservation easement practitioner, and professor. He is the author of four non-fiction books: Montana Ghost Dance, Montana Places, Rocky Mountain Divide, and Saving the Ranch. He earned his Masters in Geography at the University of Montana and his PhD in Geography from UC-Berkeley. Jack is an Emeritus Regents Professor at New Mexico State University where he taught courses in Biogeography, Environmental Planning, and The American West. His knowledge of forests, fire ecology, development conflicts, and Montana are based on both research and decades of hard-won personal experience. Fire Scars is his first novel. Jack and his wife Rachel live in Missoula’s Rattlesnake Valley and spend the winter in an old adobe house in Las Cruces, New Mexico.