About: Cork Graham
- Full Name
- Cork Graham
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- http://www.corksoutdoors.com
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- Considered the Aldo Leopold of his generation, and “The Galloping Gourmet with a Gun” by the London Times, Cork Graham’s journalism career began in 1983, far from the his adored game fields and country kitchens ; when, as a teenager on his first big assignment, he did exactly what a journalist is not supposed to do: become the subject of the news. Cork was the center of an international incident that involved the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), the US, Sweden, Czechoslovakia and the UK.
He spent 11 months imprisoned and interrogated by the SRV on false charges of spying for the CIA. After his release that included paying a $10,000 ransom to the Vietnamese, he continued in journalism by covering the Central America War for the Associated Press, CNN, and Reuters as a freelance photographer. Cork was the second American to complete the naval Special Forces course created by the US Navy SEALs in El Salvador.
After four years covering conflict, he returned to the US, seeking the healing solitude of living as a subsistence hunter and fisherman in Homer, Alaska–a moment in his life recorded in Dr. James Swan’s The Sacred Art of Hunting. The time also offered him the opportunity to write the first draft of what would become his first international bestseller in 2004, rising to #2 at Amazon.com: The Bamboo Chest.
Returning to the San Francisco Bay Area he worked as a post-traumatic stress counselor for Friendship House Association of American Indians, while also starting his outdoor writing career in 1994 as a columnist for The Times of San Mateo, lasting until the ANG buyout of the newspaper in 1997.
Cork has continued in outdoors communications as writer for such publications as Playboy, Game and Fish, Pacific Adventures and Hunting the West; and as a speaker for the International Sportsmens Exposition and O’Loughlin Shows. He has been interviewed on ABC’s Good Morning America, and the KFOG Morning Show, among others.
In 2007, Cork started his professional acting career as a regular on the largest English language TV series in South Korea, MBC’s Surprise.
Aside from hunting and fishing, hosting, writing and directing Cork’s Outdoors TV and his twice weekly Cork’s Outdoors column; he works as a screenwriter and scriptwright, and is working on the follow-up to his 2004 bestseller among other books.
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