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Good Morning Midnight : Life and Death in the Wild
By
Chip Brown
First published 2003
Featured book published by Riverhead Books
Hardcover: 320 pages
ISBN: 1573222364
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On February 6, 2000, mountaineer Guy Waterman hiked to his favorite ridge in the New Hampshire Mountains and froze to death. He was 67 years old, and his death was a suicide. Brown's biography recounts the life of a man who, in a cherished American tradition, tried to "restore his fractured soul with the tonic of wilderness." Nature provided Waterman with an escape from his psychological morass; an unhappy childhood, loveless first mariage, familial estrangement, alcoholism, and depression. Yet despite nature's salvation, Waterman "was unable to find the will or balance or gract to let the gift of his life run its course."
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About Chip Brown
Chip Brown was born in New York City and grew up in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. He graduated in 1976 from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he studied biochemistry and literature.
In 1977 he was employed as a writer in Washington D.C. for the Living Wilderness magazine, then moved to Alaska where he worked as the managing editor of the Homer Alaska News from 1978 to 1979.
From 1979 to 1985 he was a staff writer with the Washington Post, assigned variously to the Metro section, the Investigative desk and the Style section. In 1985 he moved to New York, and began a magazine freelance career. He has written for over thirty national magazines, among them the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Harper's, Outside, Vanity Fair, Men's Journal, Vogue, GQ, Conde Nast Traveler and National Geographic Adventure.
He lives in New York City with his wife Kate Betts and their son Oliver.
Selected Works by Chip Brown
- Afterwards, You're a Genius : Faith, Medicine, and the Metaphysics of Healing
- Good Morning Midnight : Life and Death in the Wild
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From the Oregonian
While the how of Waterman's story intrigues on a voyeuristic level, it's the why that holds potential for real insight…Brown has created something unexpected; a bittersweet but surprisingly uplifting investigation of nature's powers and its limits to cleanse one's sole. -Joe Kurmaskie
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