Ethics and the
Columbia River Treaty
Righting Historic Wrongs
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David James Duncan
David James Duncan is a small-scale compassion activist with a focus on rivers and wild salmon, a contemplative with a focus on the inseparable link between biological and spiritual health, and the author of the novels The River Why and The Brothers K, the story and memoir collection River Teeth, the nonfiction collections My Story as Told by Water and God Laughs & Plays, and two fast-response activist books, The Heart of the Monster (with Rick Bass) and Citizen’s Dissent (with Wendell Berry). David’s work has won three Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards, a Lannan fellowship, the Western States Book Award for nonfiction, a National Book Award nomination, the American Library Association’s Award for the Preservation of Intellectual Freedom, and other honors. His work has appeared in scores of magazines and forty book-length anthologies including Best American Essays, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Spiritual Writing (five times). He has spoken all over the U.S. on imaginative and spiritual freedom, the charms of the lay contemplative life, the tragicomedy of the writing life, and the crucifixion of the living earth. He lives with sculptor Adrian Arleo in Montana, where he is wrapping up a novel called Sun House, which fuses his loves for Asian and Western wisdom traditions, acoustic folk and blues music, and the mountains, river valleys, and open-hearted people of the American West. The closed-hearted are on their own.
contact: lolocreek@gmail.com
