John N. Maclean s "Fire on the Mountain" was the MPBA best nonfiction title of 1999. A newspaper reporter and longtime student of wildfire, he assisted in the posthumous publication of his father, Norman Maclean s, "Young Men and Fire". He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and Montana. "Fire and Ashes" (0-8050-7591-7) was selected as a "Chicago Tribune" Best Book of 2003.