Could ‘A River Runs Through It’ Have Been a Hit Today?

The autobiographical novella, first published 50 years ago, arguably created a new type of guy: the literary fly fisherman.

Fifty years on, A River still Runs Through It | Vince Bzdek

By Vince Bzdek Fifty years ago this month, a 72-year-old first-time novelist published what may be the best-written, truest book about the West ever penned. If there is one novel every Westerner ...
Flathead Beacon

50 Years of ‘A River Runs Through It’

Fifty years ago this month, a slim novella was published not by some big New York City based publishing house to great fanfare but rather a university press in the city of Chicago. The author wasn’t a ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Haunted by waters: How long can ‘A River Runs Through It’ keep running?

This story originally appeared in Mountain Journal.When Robert Redford was wrangling with author Norman Maclean over the screenplay for the 1991 movie adaptation of the most famous fly-fishing book ...