Snow Falling on Cedars | Related Titles
Snow Falling On Cedars is Guterson's first novel. His first publication was nonfiction; Family Matters: Why Home Schooling Makes Sense was published in 1992. Guterson, a public high school English teacher, took his four children out of public schools and schooled them at home on Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound. (He gave up teaching in 1995.) He also published a collection of short stories, "The Country Ahead Of Us, The Country Behind," in 1989. The stories were written during Guterson's twenties and show his development as a writer. The stories, to quote one of them, "The...
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