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Who Is This guy?
Book author, essayist, freelance magazine and copy writer... Bob Butz was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Afflicted by an after-school obsession for catching the bottom-feeding fishes that lurked in a tiny, scum-covered suburban sewer pond he frequented as a boy, he entertained dreams throughout childhood one day becoming America’s first professional carp fisherman. Then, throughout early adolescence and despite an inability to make fire without the aid of a box of matches and copious amounts of lighter fluid, he spent a brief period plotting to run away to become a mountain man. After avoiding a life of petty crime and prison by taking refuge in the woods, he managed to graduate from college with a creative writing degree. This set him up perfectly for a series of dead-end occupations—waiter, licensed movie projectionist, Indian Echo Caverns tour guide, retail clerk, and chief worm-packer for a Harrisburg-area bait and tackle shop—while he wrote a multitude of forgettable articles and stories for a number of regional and national outdoor magazines. After moving to northern Michigan in 1995 for an editorial position at The Pointing Dog Journal and The Retriever Journal, two national sporting dog magazines, Butz eventually abandoned the steady paycheck, health insurance, and retirement plan for the non-paying title of “contributing editor” to Sports Afield magazine. His by-line has since appeared in such magazines and periodicals as the New York Times, GQ, Land Rover Journal, National Wildlife, Outdoor Life, Men’s Journal, and Field and Stream. He now writes on a wide range of subjects ranging from adventure travel, nature, people profiles, the environment, and whacky outdoor news. Butz is an award winning book author and essayist and a regular radio commentator on eco-political topics for Interlochen Public Radio. In 2006, his book Beast of Never, Cat of God: The Search for the Eastern Puma received a Michigan Notable Book Award from the Library of Michigan.
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