About the Author
As a journalist and author, Lou Ureneck has celebrated nature and crusaded to protect the environment. He is the author of “Backcast,” which won the National Outdoor Book Award in 2007 for literary merit. Bill McKibben called it "one of the finest meditations on fathers and sons that I’ve ever read." Lance Morrow said the book was "gropingly moral, beautifully observed."
A former Nieman fellow and editor-in-residence at Harvard University, Ureneck was the deputy managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, in charge of the paper’s front page and nightly news operation. He was also editor and vice president of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. He began his journalism career as a reporter at the Providence Journal. Ureneck's writing has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe and Field & Stream. He is a professor of journalism at Boston University and directs the Business and Economics Journalism Program.
