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About meJohn Pipkin is the author of the forthcoming historical novel "Woodsburner," which springs from an event in the life of Henry David Thoreau. On April 30, 1844, a year before he built his cabin on Walden Pond, Thoreau accidentally started a forest fire that destroyed three hundred acres of the Concord woods—an event that altered the landscape of American thought in a single day.
In "Woodsburner," Thoreau's path intersects with three very different local citizens, each of whom also harbors a secret dream. Their lives, like Thoreau’s, is changed forever by the fire.

John currently lives with his wife and son in Austin, Texas, where he has worked in educational publishing and has served as the Executive Director of the Writers' League of Texas, a non-profit literary arts organization. He has taught literature and writing at St. Louis University, Boston University, and Southwestern University. Originally from Baltimore, he has also lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Missouri.

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