Zan Boag: It has been some nine years since you’ve published Running with the Pack, and 14 years since The Philosopher and the Wolf. For those who haven’t read your books, they wouldn’t know that you had a wolf called Brenin as a companion – you used to run regularly with him, and some other dogs. Could you explain in a bit more detail that period of your life?
Mark Rowlands: I was 27. I was in my first real job at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. I was having a grea...