Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean was the son of a Presbyterian minister who had immigrated to America with his wife from Nova Scotia. The family, which also included Norman’s brother Paul Davidson, moved to Missoula, Montana when Norman was a child. During World War I, Maclean, who was too young to fight, worked in logging camps in a national forest. He attended Dartmouth College and then the University of Chicago, where he received a doctorate in English and became a professor of poetry and Shakespeare. In 1931, he married Jessie Burns, and they had two children. He died in Chicago in 1990.