Biography
William Carl Hobbs grew up in an Air Force family and was raised in Panama, Virginia, Alaska, northern California, southern California, and Texas. He was the middle child of five born to Mary Ann (Rhodes) Hobbs and Gregory J. Hobbs. “During the years we were living in Alaska,” Hobbs has written, “I fell in love with mountains, rivers, fishing, baseball, and books.” In 1969 Will Hobbs graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in English. His M.A. in English from Stanford followed in 1971. He and his wife, Jean, were married in December 1972. Drawn by the San Juan Mountains to southwestern Colorado, they found teaching jobs in Pagosa Springs. After four years they resettled in the Durango area, where Hobbs taught for ten years at Miller Junior High. Summers he devoted to writing, backpacking, and rowing his whitewater raft through the canyons of the Southwest. Hobbs rowed ten trips down the Grand Canyon. In 1990 he began writing full-time. His professional travels have taken him to 47 states, Canada, and Germany, where six of his novels have been published in the German language. Other foreign editions have appeared in Sweden, the Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, and the U.K.Works
* ''Changes in Latitudes'' (1988) * ''Bearstone'' (1989) * ''Downriver'' (1991) * ''The Big Wander'' (1992) * ''Beardance'' (1993) * ''Kokopelli's Flute'' (1995) * ''Far North'' (1996) * ''Beardream'' (1997, illustrated by Jill Kastner) * ''Ghost Canoe'' (1997) * ''River Thunder'' (1997) * ''The Maze'' (1998) * ''Howling Hill'' (1998, illustrated by Jill Kastner) * ''Jason's Gold'' (1999) * ''Down the Yukon'' (2001) * ''Wild Man Island'' (2002) * ''Jackie's Wild Seattle'' (2003) * ''Leaving Protection'' (2004) * ''Crossing The Wire'' (2006) * ''Go Big or Go Home'' (2008) * ''Take Me to the River'' (2011) * ''Never Say Die'' (2013) * ''City of Gold'' (2020)Awards
* 1990 Mountains and Plains Booksellers Regional Book Award Winner for ''Bearstone'' * 1992 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Winner for ''Changes in Latitudes'' * 1993 Colorado Book Award Winner for ''Beardance'' * 1993 Spur Award Winner, Western Writers of America for ''Beardance'' * 1995 California Young Reader Medal Winner for ''Downriver'' * 1996 Spur Award Winner, Western Writers of America for ''Far North'' * 1997-98 Colorado Blue Spruce Young Adult Book Award Winner for ''Downriver'' * 1997 Colorado Book Award Winner for ''Far North'' * 1998 Colorado Book Award Winner for ''Beardream'', illustrated by Jill Kastner * 1998Lifetime/Body of Work Awards
* 1998 Thomas Hornsby Ferril Lifetime Literary Achievement Award (CO) * 1999 Arizona Author Award, Arizona Library Association * 2001 Frank Waters Award, Pikes Peak Library (CO)External links
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