David Backes

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David Backes (born May 14, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American author and teacher, best known for writing a biography of Sigurd F. Olson. The book, entitled A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson, won the Small Press Book Award for 1998 ^{[citation needed]}, and merited a positive review in the New York Times on October 26, 1997.

Backes is currently a professor in the Mass Communication and Journalism department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

[edit] Works

• Spirit of the North: The Quotable Sigurd F. Olson
• The Meaning of Wilderness: Essential Articles and Speeches of Sigurd F. Olson.
• Canoe Country: An Embattled Wilderness
• The Wilderness Companion
• A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson

[edit] References

• University bio
• Sigurd F. Olson website (maintained by Backes)