Craig Johnson comes from a small town in Ucross, Wyoming with a population of 25. As he has continued to publish a new book each Christmas Eve for over a decade, he is considered one of its most famous resident. There are 13 books in the Longmire series, which has also been a successful television series and is returning to Netflix for a new season this year. The Longmire series has won numberous awards such as The Western Writers of America Spur Award, Best of the Year honors from Independent Booksellers, Publisher's Weekly and Wyoming Historical Society, and Library Journal. The main character of the Longmire series features Walt Longmire, a sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming.
"Since the advent of the antihero in the late 1960s, we’ve had this plethora of quasi-good-guy-bad-guys that are the heroes. It’s hyper-accelerated so much in the last 10 years, you can’t tell the good guys from the bad guys anymore. Walt’s almost avant-garde these days: a good guy who has a code he lives by and does the right thing and cares about people has been missing for so long an awful lot of people don’t recognize him anymore."
in The Christian Science Monitor, June 2, 2014
(From the Conference Web Site)
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