Nearly a half century had passed, but I found Williams, who had retired from the University of Chicago Press, where he’d been a designer and illustrator, living in retirement in Hyde Park, the U of C neighborhood. I was digging up information for another writer, Henry Hughes, who was researching the illustrations for my dad’s book. ‘Home Waters’ began as a fish story, but as it developed into a book it wound up dealing with many of the same people, places and events as ‘A River Runs Through It.’ One element of ‘Home Waters’ that consciously imitated ‘A River’, however, is the set of wood engravings that mark each section, just as wood engravings appear ‘A River.’ By chance, at the same time I was working on ‘Home Waters’ I located Robert Williams, who created the illustrations for ‘A River’ back in the 1970s.
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