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Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Vance Nye Bourjaily was an American novelist, playwright, journalist, creative writing teacher, and essayist.

American - Novelist | September 17, 1922 - August 31, 2010

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Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.