Everett Ruess: His Short Life, Mysterious Death, and Astonishing Afterlife

By Philip L. Fradkin ’57. University of California Press, 2011. The first probing biography of Everett Ruess––the 20-year-old who disappeared in 1934 in the canyonlands of southern Utah during a quest to record wilderness beauty––goes beyond the myth to reveal the realities of his short life and mysterious death and finds in the artist’s astonishing afterlife a lonely hero who persevered.