Skookum Maguire

Skookum Maguire is the nom de plume for Robert Bennett, a Pacific Northwest writer of short stories and novels. His writing primarily concerns blue collar, working class Americans, portrayed from an Americana, historical-folkish point of view. Much of his material is set in southern Oregon and northern California, and often centers around big timber forests, logging, and the lives of the people who reside in timber dependent communities. Bennett won the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Short Story - Fiction in 2008 for Invasion of the Bible Thumpers.
Background
Bennett is a writer, heavy construction and logging consultant, and local historian. Bennett spent a number of years as a self-employed logger and heavy construction contractor. He taught, briefly, at a community college in Northern California and spent a few years working for an environmental engineering firm in various locations in North America and the island of Guam. These experiences form the background from which he draws the material from which his fiction is constructed. Bennett attended Southern Oregon University and California State University in Sacramento, California.
Short story collections
*Invasion of the Bible Thumpers (2008)
*Tall Timber Tales: Yarns and Accounts from the Backwoods (2015)
Novels
*A Place for Ferns and Mushrooms (1996)
*Estate Bottled Tears (1997)
*Dancing At Dawn In May (1999)
*The Case of the Benevolent Gringo (2004)
*The Aught-Sixers (2007 - Revised edition 2016)

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