"Bearpond Books

The Los Angeles Times describes Howard Frank Mosher as “a combination of Ernest Hemingway, Henry David Thoreau, and Jim Harrison.” His work has also earned him the highest esteem of some our our most admired writers.

Mosher is the author of eight novels and a travel memoir, North Country. Three of his novels have been made into feature films: A Stranger in the Kingdom, Disappearances, and Where the River Flows North.

Among other honors, Mosher has received a Guggenheim fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award and the New England Book Award. We know him as Howard, the sweet, unassuming Vermont author who is always willing to sign books at Bear Pond, generously promotes other authors, and fondly uses his wife of nearly four decades, Phillis, as an inspiration for Yellow Sage Flower Who Tells Wise Stories in his book, True Account.

Northern Borders is Mosher’s nostalgic novel of life in northern Vermont’s Kingdom County, as told by a man remembering his boyhood. In 1948 six-year-old Austen Kittredge III leaves his widowed father to live with his paternal grandparents on their farm in the township of Lost Nation. Escapades at the county fair, doings at the annual family reunion and Shakespeare performance, and conflicts at the one-room schoolhouse are all recounted lovingly in this enchanting coming-of-age story filled with luminous memories and the deepest of childhood secrets, as a boy is molded into a man.

Winner of the New England Book Award, Howard Frank Mosher”s endearing first novel is both a heroic adventure and a thrilling coming-of-age story. It is the memorable tale of a young man named Wild Bill Bonhomme, his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, and their whiskey-smuggling exploits along the Vermont-Canada border in 1932. On an epic journey through the wilderness, Bill and his father encounter a cast of wild characters–and live out magical escapades as they carve their way into legend.

Howard’s newest book comes out in early March 2010.  You can pre-buy it before his March 9 event with us.