Lorraine Boissoneault is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied narrative nonfiction. She is an editor at the Weather Channel and lives in Chicago.
"Lorraine Boissoneault has written a contemporary classic in the literature of the vision quest - part arduous odyssey, part coming-of-age saga. And this book has the added advantage of being indelibly true, lived out by a charismatic teacher and the high school students who volunteer as his crew on a 3,000-mile canoe journey from the St. Lawrence River to the Gulf of Mexico. Here is risk, injury, pain, contention - and camaraderie, common purpose, rapture, and a life-changing achievement." -- Sam Freedman, Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of The Inheritance "An almost forgotten chapter of our history is brought to light in this chronicle that should be widely read and remembered." -- Christopher Webber, author of Give Me Liberty "In The Last Voyageurs, Lorraine Boissoneault brings both 17th and 20th century history alive in her telling of a daring group of high school students, led by educators, who in 1976 retraced in period gear the 3,300-mile journey of the French explorer La Salle. She puts the reader in the canoes of the youths who traveled from Lake Ontario to New Orleans via the Mississippi River." -- Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And Their Children After Them
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