Cheating the Hog: A Sawmill. A Tragedy. A Few Gutsy Women
Rae Ellen Lee grew up on a stump ranch in northern Idaho, and later served in the Foreign Service in Washington, D.C., Switzerland and (then) Yugoslavia. After earning a degree in landscape architecture from the University of Idaho, she worked with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho and Montana. She is the author of two linked memoirs, some readers call humorous neurotica. The first memoir features life on a sailboat, and the second one is set on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Her two novels are also set in unusual locales: the first in a turn-of-the-century mining camp brothel she lived in and renovated, and the second one in a sawmill. An amateur naturalist and geezer enthusiast, she is wrapping up a research project she began twenty-five years ago and will publish the results, A Field Guide to Geezers, in the spring of 2013. She now writes, hikes and sketches around the Western U.S.