Philip Connors: 3 books

The prize-winning author of Fire Season returns with the heartrending story of his troubled years before finding solace in the wilderness. In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells...

“Fire Season both evokes and honors the great hermit celebrants of nature, from Dillard to Kerouac to Thoreau—and I loved it.” —J.R. Moehringer, author of The Tender Bar “[Connors’s] adventures in radical solitude make for profoundly absorbing, restorative reading.” —Walter...

Philip considers this book to be a sequel to his first book, Fire Season, Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout. That book sold over 30,000 copies across all editions (11,300 HB; 10,000+ PB; 10,000+ e-book). This book takes place in the Gila National Forest, the first national park designated as a...