Nate Blakeslee

Nate Blakeslee is a born and raised Texan author best known for the writing of Texan stories in his two novels “American Wolf” and “Tulia”. Nate was born in Arlignton and went to the University of Texas where he got his America Studies masters majoring in the Civil Rights movement. Blakeslee spent much of his early adult life in the Northern Rockies, where together with his friends from college he worked summer job in Jackson. He has asserted his time in Jackson, Wyoming as some of the most fun in his life and as such, he is always looking forward to visiting the city whenever he can. “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West” is his most popular novel though he debuted his writing career with “Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town” that was first published in 2005. He had first met Rick McIntyre in 2007 while he was undertaking a wolf watching class at the Yellowstone National Park. He had become interested in wolves but it was not until he heard of the alpha female wolf O-Six, that he decided to actively learn and write about wolves. He currently lives in Austin Texas with his wife and children.