First time novelist, Jim McBride, is from out west somewhere between the
Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho and the Shirley Mountains of Wyoming. He also spends several
months a year in a tiny New England village surrounded by thousands of acres of forest,
where he works at polishing his writings.
Jim has been previously recognized as a playwright and a screenwriter. He has worked at
the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, studied with Constance Welch of the Yale
School of Drama, and acted in "The Playboy of the Western World" under the
direction of Siobhan McKenna of Ireland's Abbey Theatre.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Brandeis University in the east where he was
a playwright in residence. Besides working as an educator, Jim has worked as an actor,
foundry worker, coal miner and cowhand.
Jim's publisher, Grace Brown says, "Trying to get information out of him about
himself is like trying to rope the wind, but as his publisher, I feel very fortunate that
he has shared some of his trunk full of writing with me."
