| John MacLean | |
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Full name |
John Norman Maclean |
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Alternative names |
John N. Maclean |
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Presence at Shimer | |
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Presence on Earth |
1943– |
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BA |
Shimer College 1964 |
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Role(s) |
Mount Carroll period alum |
John Maclean was a student at Shimer College during the Mount Carroll period, graduating in 1964.
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John Norman Maclean (b. 1943) is an American author and journalist, known for his writing about wildland firefighting. Maclean holds a bachelor's degree from Shimer College, a Great Books college in Chicago, and was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University. He worked for the City News Bureau and the Chicago Tribune for many years before leaving the Tribune to work on his first book, Fire on the Mountain, in 1995. He has published numerous books since then, including Young Men and Fire, Fire and Ashes, and The Thirtymile Fire. (from Shimer College Wiki)
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