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William Flagg Magee was born in Reno, Nevada. He grew up in San Mateo, CA.At age 13 he went to The Eaglebrook School in Deerfield MA, and continued on to the Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, NJ. He graduated from the University of Nevada with a defgree in Far Eastern History. In the financial indistry for over forty years Magee began writing in earnest in 2005.
His Mother and Father owned the Grass Valley Ranch, Austin, NV, about 200 miles East of Reno.
Spending summers at the ranch he learned to break horses, put up hay, work cattle and dig fence posts.
He has lived in Dallas, TX since May 1977. He is married and has two grown children. As his boys grew and became Eagle Scouts he became active in scouting earning Wood Badge and Order of the Arrow. He is active in the Episcopal Church and volunteers on the Palliative Care unit of a large Dallas hospital, and as a lay chaplain.
Reviewed by Lynette Fowlston for Readers' Favorite
The Elephant Hunter by William Flagg Magee is a memoir that brings to life Willie's family from the past...a past that over the years shows how a relationship between a mother and son had gone astray, and the transformation of that relationship in the end. The storyline follows his family from the time of the Civil War when his grandfather went west in search of the gold mines where he made money and eventually sent for his wife and children to join him. We follow Willie's quest to find out more about his own dealings with life and that of his family, more about his mother and father, and why there was such strife that kept them apart. Asked if he was an Elephant Hunter he replied, ”What’s an Elephant Hunter?" In Willie's case, his elephant is the emotional, psychological and spiritual life and the hunter is looking for those who are absent in his life, such as his mother.
This is a very interesting story dealing with family relationships down through the years...a story that tells of the problems of Willie and his mother and how eventually God helps them reconcile those problems before death finally overtakes her. I was a little puzzled by just who the author was of the book. At the first of the book it talks of his friend John who was asked to put Willie's story in writing. It is like reading a memoir written by a friend. It’s a book that needs to be read in detail to get the full extent of Willie's story.
