It’s now in its second paperback edition and still in print, people are still reading it, and it has been honored as a “classic” by the National Outdoor Book Awards. Kingbird Highway was never really promoted, but word-of-mouth kept it afloat. But my typed rough draft had been sitting in a box for years, taunting me, and I was just impatient to get it out there so I could forget about it.īut then a funny thing happened: People read it.
After all, by that time the events it described were almost 25 years in the past already.
When it was published, I didn’t have high expectations.
The book describes my adventures as a teenager hitchhiking around North America in the early 1970s, in a single-minded search for all the birds I could find. It was 25 years ago this month-July 1997-that my Kingbird Highway was published.
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