Lynn Schooler is the author of 'The Blue Bear,' 'The Last Shot' and 'Walking Home.' He has lived in Alaska for over forty years. He is a two-time winner of Alaska magazine's grand prize for wildlife photography and winner of the National Wildlife grand prize. Lynn Schooler's first book, The Blue Bear - A True Story of Friendship, Tragedy, and Survival' tells the story of the author's friendship with the Japanese wildlife photographer Michio Hoshino, who was killed by a grizzly in the Kurilskoya brown bear refuge on the Kamchatka peninsula on August 8, 1996. In 2002, The Blue Bear was awarded the French literary prize 'Prix Litt�raire 30 Millions d'Ami.' The Blue Bear has also been named as a Notable Book by the awards panel for the Kiriyama Prize for cross-cultural communication and was selected by the editors at Amazon.com as their #1 Choice in Nature Writing for 2002. In 2011 it was adapted as a popular stage play by Perseverance Theater in Juneau, Alaska. In 2010, Lynn Schooler published a second memoir, Walking Home: A Traveler in the Alaskan Wilderness, a Journey into the Human Heart. It is the story of his solo trek along one of North America's wildest coastlines. 

January 1st, 1954 in United States of America (Age 70)