Welcome to The Write Question, a program that explores the world of writing and publishing in the western United States. Our guest today is author Michael Punke from Missoula, Montana.

Punke is a former partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm and his professional experience includes work on Capitol Hill and the White House National Security Council. He is the author of a novel, The Revenant, based on the true adventures of a 19th-century frontiersman. The Revenant was a Spur Award finalist, a Denver Post bestseller, and had film rights optioned to Warner Bros.

Punke’s second book, Fire and Brimstone, is a narrative nonfiction account of a 1917 mining disaster in Butte, Montana. His third book, published by Smithsonian Books, is titled, Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. It recounts the little-known story of nineteenth-century sportsman-conservationist George Bird Grinnell, who led the epic battle to save the buffalo from extinction.

In addition to writing, Punke teaches a course on American Foreign Policy at the University of Montana.

For more information about Michael Punke go to MichaelPunke.com

FYI:

Recently published fiction includes Returning To Earth, by Jim Harrison.

If you’re interested in nonfiction, take note of Streams of Consciousness: Hip-Deep Dispatches from the River of Life, written by Jeff Hull. And in poetry category: Circadian, by Joanna Klink

For more information about new books, contact your favorite bookseller or library.


And here’s some food for thought from Francis Bacon: “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.”

The Write Question is produced by Chérie Newman.

Executive producer, Michael Marsolek.

Special thanks to Barbara Theroux, Renée McGrath, and Kim Anderson.

This program included music by Michael Blessing and Springhill.

The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio. Send comments to Chérie Newman



Guests on the The Write Question are writers, publishers, and illustrators living, or working for an extended period of time, in the western United States. The Write Question is a production of Montana Public Radio.