**Presented by the Walden Woods Project and

Porter Square Books**

John Daniel, author of

Rogue River Journal: A Winter Alone

John Daniel is the author of two poetry collections, Common Ground and All Things Touched by Wind. His The Trail Home, a collection of essays on nature, imagination, and the American West, was published in 1992 by Pantheon Books and won the 1993 Oregon Book Award for Literary Nonfiction. His work has appeared in journals such as Audubon, Sierra, The North American Review, and Bloomsbury Review.

With Thoreau's Journals for instruction and inspiration, in November 2000, John Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a cabin in the Rogue River Gorge, and quit civilization for a prescribed time.  He left his wife behind and moved into a cabin sure to be snowed-in just after his arrival, where he lived in complete isolation until spring, without even his cat as a companion. In addition to the physical rigor of working in isolation, Daniel had assumed a hard spiritual task in deciding to live alone: to confront his dead father. The result is a remarkable memoir of both vivid present and past interwoven.

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