Bestselling author John Vaillant will be discussing his newest book, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, and life in the Pyrocene in the American West.

This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

John Vaillant is an author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and  the Guardian, among others. Fire Weather, a number-one bestseller in Canada, won the UK’s Baillie Gifford Prize, a global award for English language non-fiction, and was a finalist for National Book Award and the Canadian Writers‘ Trust Nonfiction Prize. It was named one of the ten best books of 2023 by The New York Times, among many other prominent publications in Europe and North America. Feature film rights have been optioned by Vendôme Pictures, which won an Academy Award for CODA in 2022.

This event is sponsored in part by the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy, the Natural History Museum, and the Stegner Center.