1. Thomas Francis McGuane III was born on December 11,1939 and is an American writer.
15 Facts About Thomas McGuane
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Thomas McGuane's work includes ten novels, short fiction and screenplays, as well as three collections of essays devoted to his life in the outdoors.
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Thomas McGuane is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the NCHA Members Hall of Fame and the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame.
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Thomas McGuane's later writing reflected an increasing devotion to family relationships and relationships with the natural world in the changing American West, primarily Montana, where he has made his home since 1968, and where his last five novels and many of his essays are set.
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Thomas McGuane was born in Wyandotte, Michigan, the son of Irish Catholic parents who moved to the Midwest from Massachusetts.
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Thomas McGuane prefers to consider his roots matrilineal, on which he is descended from a rich storytelling clan.
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Thomas McGuane envisioned himself as a writer from a very young age, admiring what he perceived as the adventurous life of a writer as much as the prospect of writing.
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Thomas McGuane began a serious devotion to writing by the age of 16.
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Thomas McGuane reassessed his career and changed his focus to Hollywood's lucrative screenwriting opportunities.
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Thomas McGuane entered a period where he became known as "Captain Berserko" and wrote screenplays for Rancho Deluxe, shot in Livingston; The Missouri Breaks, directed by Arthur Penn and starring Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando; and self-directing a film adaptation of 92 in the Shade, starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder and Harry Dean Stanton.
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Thomas McGuane was presented the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement by Council member David McCullough at the 1993 Academy of Achievement Summit in Glacier National Park, Montana.
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In 1993 Thomas McGuane received an honorary doctorate from Montana State University.
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Thomas McGuane won the 2016 Robert Kirsch Award the lifetime achievement of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award in 2013 for his story "River Camp", and was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award in 2015 for his work Gallatin Canyon.
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Thomas McGuane moved from Paradise Valley to a different property in the Boulder River valley near McLeod, Montana.
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Larry McMurtry observed that Thomas McGuane's nonfiction writing displays a markedly contrasting inner peace and natural spirituality.