Lynn Schooler

Lynn Schooler is an American author. He is the author of 'The Blue Bear', 'The Last Shot' and 'Walking Home'. He has lived in Alaska for over forty years. He is a two-time winner of Alaska magazine's grand prize for wildlife photography and winner of the National Wildlife grand prize.
Lynn Schooler's first book, The Blue Bear - A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival' tells the story of the author's friendship with the Japanese wildlife photographer Michio Hoshino, who was killed by a brown bear in the Kurilskoya brown bear refuge on the Kamchatka peninsula on August 8, 1996. In 2002, The Blue Bear was awarded the French literary prize 'Prix Littéraire 30 Millions d'Ami.' The Blue Bear has also been named as a Notable Book by the awards panel for the Kiriyama Prize for cross-cultural communication and was selected by the editors at Amazon.com as their #1 Choice in Nature Writing for 2002. In 2011 it was adapted as a popular stage play by Perseverance Theater in Juneau, Alaska.
In 2010, Lynn Schooler published a second memoir, Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart. It is the story of his solo trek along one of North America's wildest coastlines. Along the way he shares fascinating tales of Alaska's history, with stories of adventurers from many nations and the region's indigenous Tlingit Indians. In August 2010, the memoir was broadcast as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. The programme was produced by Rosalynd Ward and the book was read by Colin Stinton.
In November, 2010, "Walking Home" was awarded the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival's prize for 'Best Mountain Literature of 2010."
Lynn Schooler has also written fiction under the pen name Lynn D'Urso. His first novel, 'Heartbroke Bay' was a finalist for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Heartbroke Bay was also selected as a USA Today 'Best Book' of 2011.