The backstory to A River Runs Through It is finally here, forty-five years later, from The Washington Post.
From the linked Post article:
His son, John N. Maclean, is also an author, and his latest book, Home Waters, is a lyrical companion to his father’s classic, chronicling their family’s history and bond with Montana’s Blackfoot River. His storytelling — from the fishing with his dad to the life and death of his Uncle Paul — is reliable, elegant and charming.
After a 30-year career as a journalist, mostly as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in D.C., the younger Maclean took to writing well-received nonfiction about wildfires in the American West. He hadn’t considered a family memoir.
