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Nick Lyons

Born

in New York, The United States

June 05, 1932

Genre

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Nick Lyons taught English at the University of Michigan prior to accepting a position at the Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1961. He remained on the faculty of CUNY until 1988. He also worked as the executive editor of Crown Publishers from 1964-1974. An avid fisherman, Lyons found a way to combine his avocation and profession in 1977 when he created his first publishing company, Nick Lyons Books, eventually Lyons Press. It earned the reputation as one of the premier publishers of fishing books, but the company also printed works on nature, camping, adventure, gardening, woodworking, travel, the sea, history, food and wine, art and r ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 1,212 ratings · 116 reviews · 90 distinct works • Similar authors

	Spring Creek by Nick Lyons, Mari Lyons (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1992 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bright Rivers: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly Fishing 4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1977 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire in the Straw: Notes on Inventing a Life 3.78 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seasonable Angler: Journeys Through a Fisherman's Year 4.32 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Creel: A Nick Lyons Reader by Nick Lyons, Thomas McGuane (Foreword), Mari Lyons (Illustrator) 4.35 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fishing Stories: A Lifetime of Adventures and Misadventures on Rivers, Lakes, and Seas by Nick Lyons, Mari Lyons (Illustrator) 4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Secret Fishing Life by Nick Lyons, Mari Lyons (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Flyfisher's World 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Quotable Fisherman by Nick Lyons (Editor), Alan James Robinson (Illustrator) 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Praise of Wild Trout 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“purposes. The late Roderick Haig-Brown said, “Were it not for the strong, quick life of rivers, for their sparkle in the sunshine, for the cold grayness of them under rain and the feel of them about my legs as I set my feet hard down on rocks or sand or gravel, I should fish less often.” Amen.”
― Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing

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“Cézanne, from a letter, after a day of fishing: “All this is easier than painting but it does not lead far.” Not hardly. Not very far at all. Except that this may be precisely where I want it to lead. Let the world lead far—as one should frame it to do; let art last long and lead far and to form. Let a few other human activities lead far, though most of them lead us up a tree or up the asshole of the world. Let fly-fishing be temporary and fleeting and inconsequential. I do not mind.”
― Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers: Celebrations of Rivers and Fly-fishing

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