This interview, first published in ...

This interview, first published in Chicago Review 39:1 (1993) took place at Dorn's household in Boulder, Colorado, on September 4 1990 John Wright, who exhausted many years in northwest Washington, begins by means of asking about Dorn's early years in the Skagit Valley and his novel according to the Sound. Later, Jennifer Dunbar Dorn joins them and the conversation for a while.

John Wright: You plant your way to the Skagit Valley early upon in your career, and it was there that you wrote your novel by the agency of the Sound. Tell me about your time there.

Edward Dorn: Well, I went to the Skagit Valley before I