Winter’s Bone Author Daniel Woodrell Dies at 72

Daniel Woodrell was born in Springfield, Missouri in 1953. He left high school and immediately joined the Marines, seeing military service as a natural expectation. As he explained to Guernica magazine in 2013, he hadn’t questioned the idea of serving in a war – it was simply assumed in his family. It wasn’t until he enlisted that he encountered different viewpoints. This period was a turning point for him, as he was exposed to concepts like pacifism and the possibility of morally objecting to government actions – ideas he’d never considered before. He described it as a time of significant learning and personal growth.





