Renee Thompson
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Northern California, United States |
| Introduction | I write fiction set in the American West, and possess an abiding appreciation for our environment and the natural world. My husband recently retired from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and my two daughters are employed in the conservation arena. I live in Folsom, California, and am a liberal married to a conservative. For some reason it works! |
| Interests | Writing, reading, walking, camping, bird watching, playing the piano, researching, saddlemaking, sheep tending, plume hunting, cowboy boots, drinking coffee, watching movies, chocolate, schokolade, cioccolato, sukulata. |
| Favorite Movies | The Last of the Mohicans, The Piano, Godfather 1 and 2, Urban Cowboy, Fargo, Dances with Wolves, The Upside of Anger, Reds, Eye of the Needle, All the President's Men, Serpico, Three Days of the Condor. |
| Favorite Music | Gipsy Kings, Jose Feliciano, Del Castillo, The Beatles, Neil Young, Justin Timberlake, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, Fleetwood Mac, Union Station, America, Jesse Colin Young, Ray Lamontagne, Ludwig van Beethoven, Claude Debussy, Anything from the Sixties. |
| Favorite Books | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff, The Indian Creek Chronicles by Pete Fromm, A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel, The Body (novella) by Stephen King, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Paris Trout by Pete Dexter, The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Trees by Conrad Richter, Brokeback Mountain (short story) by Annie Proulx, The Wamsutter Wolf (short story) by Annie Proulx, The Paperhanger (short story) by William Gay, At the Jim Bridger (short story) by Ron Carlson, Pharmacy (chapter in Olive Kitteridge) by Elizabeth Strout, A Father's Story (short story) by Andre Dubus. |