To contact Vaughn please email him at billvaughn@montana.com
Bill Vaughn is the author of
Hawthorn, a political and natural history published by Yale University Press in 2015, and
First, A Little Chee-Chee, a collection of essays about weird sports. His articles have been published in
Outside, The Men’s Journal, Ski, Salon, Westways, AARP, New West, American Cowboy, Wooden Boat, Rocky Mountain Magazine, Aldus, Seven Days, numerous other publications, and in a dozen anthologies, including
The Best American Magazine Writing 2001, Outside 25, and
Dog Is My Co-Pilot, a New York Times best-seller. The subjects of his essays and reports have ranged from sports to the paper industry, fashion, Branson, and Provence to celebrities such as Jesse James. His essay about ice skating was nominated for a National Magazine Award. He wrote the libretto for a photography collection from Norton called
Hip Hop Hares, and edited and designed
The Complete Fisherman’s Catalog, a big-selling title for Lippincott. His essay about becoming a middle-aged Eagle Scout was optioned by Endeavor as the basis for a screenplay written for Adam Sandler, and again by New Line Cinema. He contributed an essay about cattle ranching to
Working America, a coffee-table photography collection sponsored by Toyota. Following his attempt to wreck the filming of the first season of the CBS reality series
Survivor, his online columns about the first and second seasons were widely read. He has designed more than four-hundred books. And he sang solo on National Public Radio.
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