Bill Barich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American writer
Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1943
Place of Birth: Winona, Minnesota, United States
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Bill Barich
- Bill Barich (born 1943 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American writer.
- He grew up on Long Island and graduated from Colgate University in 1965.
- Subsequently, he served in the U.S.
- Peace Corps in eastern Nigeria (Biafra), then settled in northern California where many of his books are set.
- He published Laughing in the Hills, his first book, a classic account of racetrack life, in 1980.
- William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, ran a two-part excerpt from the book and appointed Barich a staff writer.
- His contributions over the next fifteen years fall into three categories: travel and the sporting life; reportage; and short fiction.
- Traveling Light, his account of a sojourn abroad in Italy and England, appeared in 1984, after which he won a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction.
- His other books include Hard to Be Good (stories); Big Dreams: Into the Heart of California (travel); Carson Valley (novel); Crazy for Rivers (angling/autobiography); and A Fine Place to Daydream (travel/racing).
- Barich's work has been included in Best American Short Stories and many other anthologies.
- In addition to The New Yorker, he has contributed to Esquire, Sports Illustrated, American Poetry Review, Salon, Narrative, and other magazines and journals, and he is a Literary Laureate of the San Francisco Public Library.
- He travels between Santa Monica, California and Dublin, Ireland.
- He has also written a book entitled A Pint of Plain, an account of his setting out to find a traditional authentic Irish pub.
- It is a lament of sorts as he is seeking the famous Pat Cohan-type pub of the John Wayne film "The Quiet Man." In 2010, Barich published Long Way Home: On the Trail of Steinbeck's America his account of a 5,943-mile cross-country trip undertaken in the autumn of 2008 just prior to the presidential election.
- He assesses the state of the nation in much the same way John Steinbeck did almost fifty years ago in Travels With Charley.
- From 2010 through 2012 he worked as the lead writer on the HBO series Luck, about horses and racing, created by David Milch and starring Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte.
- In 2016, Barich published An Angle on the World, a collection of reporting from The New Yorker, travel pieces, personal essays, and book reviews.
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