Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934.
Her film credits include Heartland (executive producer) and A River Runs Through It (coproducer)..
She was coeditor, with William Kittredge, of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology .
Her story, It\'s Come to This, appeared in Best American Short Stories, 1992 .
About author(s): Annick Smith is a freelance writer, editor, and filmmaker.
Her film credits include Heartland (executive producer) and A River Runs Through It (coproducer).
She was coeditor, with William Kittredge, of The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology.
Her story, "It\'s Come to This," appeared in Best American Short Stories, 1992.
Annick Smith is a freelance writer, editor, and filmmaker.
Radios and flivvers have enlarged her world, and she longs to escape from an isolated place where wild violet Fireweed grows to the edge of the woods.
Young Celie and her husband, Joe Linsen, are the children of Scandinavian pioneers.
The setting is a small lumber town in Upper Michigan, the stomping grounds of Paul Bunyan and the giants of Swedish, German, and Finnish lore.
Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award.
Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934
