John Straley

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Sitka author John Straley was the 2006 Alaska Writer Laureate and the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear. His wife Jan is a marine biologist.

Ricketts, Calvin and the charisma of an Alaska place

I like to think that reading John Steinbeck's words imprinted on me the first intense love of place that I have kept alive all my life. Some places have charisma to shape stories and draw storytellers to them. Sitka is such a place.

By John Straley●

January 17, 2016 at 9:51 am

Learning the language of joy from whales

I've learned more about graceful movement and gentleness from their actions than from anything I've ever read about them. By being in a 13-foot inflatable skiff and having a 40-foot female swim three feet underneath my feet, I've learned more about forbearance and delicacy than I have from anything published by Greenpeace.

By John Straley●

December 06, 2014 at 6:33 pm

John Straley

author

Ricketts, Calvin and the charisma of an Alaska place

Learning the language of joy from whales

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