Experiences of the old, pristine West, the fascination of today’s West, records of how Westerners talk, travel books, fantasies, and spiritual journeys of drum and dance—I live them all, I read them all, and I write them all. My books and screenplays speak my love for these places and people.
“I have run her rivers and guided people along her currents and through her rapids. I have climbed her demanding mountains and was almost taken by one. I’ll keep hiking to ruins, smelling the desert and alpine air, wading the creeks, and listening to the wolves howl until I check out.”
Win Rafting the San Juan River
Blevins, of Cherokee, Welsh-Irish, and African-American descent is a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. After attending school in St. Louis, Missouri, he moved to New York where he received a degree from Columbia University, graduating with honors, and continued to California, where he was graduated from the Music Conservatory of the University of Southern California.
Win has written over 40 books… actually he has forgotten exactly how many… and is a NYTimes bestselling author. He is honored to have won the Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement in writing literature of the West, inducted into the Western Writers Hall of Fame in Cody, WY, and awarded several notable Spurs.
Stone Song, his favorite book, was short-listed for the Pulitzer. A novel of the life of Crazy Horse, Win was also named writer of the year three times by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. He feels blessed to be a member of the world’s oldest profession: Storyteller.
