William Dietrich (novelist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

William Dietrich (novelist)

American writer

Date of Birth: 29-Sep-1951

Place of Birth: Tacoma, Washington, United States

Profession: naturalist, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About William Dietrich (novelist)

  • William Dietrich (born September 29, 1951) is an American novelist, non-fiction writer, journalist, and college professor.
  • His historical novels and thrillers have made bestseller lists and his Ethan Gage series, set during the Napoleonic wars, have sold in 28 languages.
  • He has also written novels set in the Roman Empire, Antarctica, and Australia.
  • His non-fiction works are natural history and environmental history of the Pacific Northwest. Dietrich was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, and attended Fairhaven College at Western Washington University, graduating with a degree in journalism.
  • He worked for several Pacific Northwest newspapers and Gannett News Service.
  • While at The Seattle Times, he covered the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, and shared the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with three other Times journalists.
  • He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (1987–88) and won National Science Foundation fellowships to Antarctica in 1994 and 1996.
  • He reported extensively on science and the environment.
  • His first book, The Final Forest, depicted the old growth and spotted owl battle in Forks, Washington.
  • The book won the Washington Governor Writer's Award and Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award.
  • He wrote a book on the Columbia River, Northwest Passage, a book on Northwest plants and animals, Natural Grace, and did the text for a pictorial book by photographer Art Wolfe, On Puget Sound. His first novel, the World War II adventure Ice Reich, grew out of his reporting in Antarctica.
  • This was followed by Getting Back, an eco-fable set in Australia, Dark Winter, a thriller at the South Pole, and Hadrian's Wall and The Scourge of God, set during the Roman empire.
  • Most recent are the Ethan Gage series of novels: Napoleon's Pyramids, The Rosetta Key, The Dakota Cipher, The Barbary Pirates, and The Emerald Storm. Since 2006 he has been a professor of environmental journalism and writing at Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, where he advises Planet magazine.
  • He currently lives in Washington state with his wife Holly.
  • He has two grown daughters.

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