Tim Cahill (born 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editor of Outside magazine and currently serves as an editor at large for the magazine.
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 Tim Cahill signs autographs for young readers in Georgia in 2014. | |
| Born | 1943 (age 80–81)[1][2] Nashville, Tennessee, USA[1][3] |
| Occupation | Adventure travel writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A. in European intellectual history from Wisconsin[1][3] M.A. in creative writing from SF State[1][3] (1970)[4] |
| Genre | Travel writing |
| Spouse | Linnea Larson (deceased) |
Biography
editCahill spent his childhood primarily in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison on a swimming scholarship. Along with professional long-distance driver Garry Sowerby, Cahill set a world record for speed in driving the entire length of the American continents, from Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina up along the Pan-American Highway to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska in twenty-three days, twenty-two hours, and forty-three minutes. This trip was the source material for his 1991 book Road Fever. He has written several books recounting his adventure travel experiences and blends his own brand of humor into his stories. He is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Adventure magazine.[5]
Cahill lost his wife, Linnea Larson, to a traffic accident in April 2008.[6]
Bibliography
edit- Buried Dreams : Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, Bantam Books: 1986. ISBN 0-553-05115-6
- Jaguars Ripped My Flesh: Adventure is a Risky Business, Bantam Books: 1987. ISBN 0-553-34276-2
- A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg, Vintage Books: 1989. ISBN 0-679-72026-X
- Road Fever: A High-Speed Travelogue, Random House: 1991. ISBN 0-394-57656-X
- Pecked To Death By Ducks, Random House: 1993. ISBN 0-679-40735-9
- Pass The Butterworms: Remote Journeys Oddly Rendered, Villard: 1997. ISBN 0-679-45625-2
- Dolphins (book), National Geographic: 2000. ISBN 0-7922-7594-2
- Hold The Enlightenment, Villard: 2002. ISBN 0-375-50766-3
- Lost in my own Backyard : a Walk in Yellowstone National Park, Crown Journeys: 2004. ISBN 1-4000-4622-X
- Not So Funny When It Happened : the Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (editor), Travelers' Tales: 2000. ISBN 1-885211-55-4
References
edit- ^ a b c d Drew, Bernard Alger (2008). 100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies. Libraries Unlimited. pp. 48–51. ISBN 9781591584872.
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- ^ Tim Cahill bio, WeRead.com (accessed online 2009-02-04)[dead link]
- ^ a b c Tim Cahill bio , BookRags.com (accessed online 2009-02-04)(subscription required)
- ^ 100 Countries and Counting, SF State Magazine, Fall/Winter 2008 (accessed online 23 April 2017)
- ^ "Publications Index". shadow.ngs.org. Retrieved 2019-01-15.
- ^ Linnea Larson obituary, Bozeman Chronicle, May 2, 2008 (accessed online 2009-02-04)
External links
edit- Tim Cahill, Mishap Maestro, Outside Bozeman, March 2000 (accessed online 2009-04-02)
- A Google Map of Cahill's transcontinental drive in "Road Fever"
- Tim Cahill on the birth of Outside