Bio
Andrew Vietze does his scribbling in the back bedroom of an old Maine farmhouse and a cabin deep in the woods of Baxter State Park. He’s the author of five books, including his latest, Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a Maine Guide Inspired America’s 26th President, which recently won a silver medal at the IPPYs – the Independent Publisher Book Awards – in New York, was honored by the Maine State Legislature, and was a 2010 Book of the Year Award finalist in the biography category.
The former managing editor of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, he’s written for a wide variety of magazines and online publications, including Time Out New York, The New York Times’ LifeWire, Weather.com’s Forecast Earth, Crawdaddy!, AMC Outdoors, Popmatters, Hooked on the Outdoors, Explore, Offshore, Big Sky Journal, MaineBiz, and Maine Times. Two of his pieces for Down East have won awards for feature writing from the International Regional Magazine Association.
For six months of each year, he’s a ranger in the wilds of the Katahdin region. That’s where he’s currently hard at work on the first history of the harrowing tale of Boon Island. And finishing his debut novel, a thriller set in the North Woods during the lumbering era.
