"The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant" by W. D. Wetherell
W. D. Wetherell was raised in Garden City, New Jersey, but has made his home for a number of years in Lyme Center, New Hampshire, not far from Hanover and Dartmouth College. Wetherell is the author of eight books. These include the novels Souvenirs (1981), Chekhov's Sister (1990), and The Wisest Man in America (1995), and two short stories collections. The Man who loved Levitown (1985), which won The Drue Heinz Literature Prize the year of its publication, and Hyannis Boat and Other Stories (1989). His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Kenyon Review, Tr-Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, and Breadloaf Quarterly, Atlantic, Southern Review, Colorado Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Graffiti. Several have been selected for inclusion in the annual O. Henry Awards volume of Prize Stories and have won the P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Prize. Wetherell is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship. Wetherell's lifelong avocation is fly-fishing, and he has three volumes on the subject: Upland Stream (1991), Vermont River (1993), and One More River (1998). His most recent book is a celebration of mountainous western New Hampshire, North of Now (1998). As for his story, " Wherever That Great Heart May Be," W.D. Wetherell has written the current editor as follows: "The title comes from what I think is the most beautiful novel dedication ever, that of Melville to Jack Chase, his former shipmate, in Billy Budd (Melville's last novel, published posthumously in 1924). I have an extravagant belief in stories, in big stories, most of all, and I think this is an example of the tradition out of which I'm writing; the last line, simple as it is, is the nearest thing to a credo I have."
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