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The Sowell Family Collection In Literature, Community, And The Natural World
The Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community, and the Natural World, housed in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library in Lubbock, Texas, preserves the journals, drafts, correspondence, ephemera, born-digital and audio visual media of 28 American writers on the natural world. Selected portions of the collection may be viewed online and in person. According to a census of Collection finding aids available from the Texas Archival Resources Online, there are currently around 1340 linear feet of processed materials in the Collection, including ephemera documenting its own history. History Texas Tech University's Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community, and the Natural World began with discussions with Barry Lopez and other contributors in 1998. The first papers were acquired and processed in 2000, and as early as 2001 Texas Tech Libraries hosted a reading by a Sowell Collection author. The Collection has been open to researchers sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretel Ehrlich
Gretel Ehrlich is an American travel writer, poet and essayist. Biography Born in 1946 in Santa Barbara, California, she studied at Bennington College and UCLA film school. She began to write full-time in 1978 while living on a Wyoming ranch after the death of a loved one. Ehrlich debuted in 1985 with ''The Solace of Open Spaces'', a collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming. Her first novel was also set in Wyoming, entitled ''Heart Mountain'' (1988), about a community being invaded by an internment camp for Japanese Americans. One of Ehrlich's best-received books is a volume of creative nonfiction essays called ''Islands, The Universe, Home.'' Her characteristic style of merging intense, vivid, factual observations of nature with a wryly mystical personal voice is evident in this work. Other books include ''This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland'' and two volumes of poetry. In 1991 Ehrlich was hit by lightning and was incapacitated for several years. She wrote a b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pattiann Rogers
Pattiann Rogers (born 1940) is an American poet, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In 2018, she was awarded a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry. Life Pattiann Rogers is an American poet living in Colorado with her husband and has two sons and three grandsons. She was born in Joplin, Missouri, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri in 1961. She received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Houston in 1981. She taught as a visiting writer at the University of Texas, the University of Montana, and at Washington University in St. Louis. She was the Ferrol Sams Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Mercer University and was on the faculty of the low residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Pacific University. She was associate professor, and taught in the MFA Creative Writing Program during the spring semesters, 1993 to 1997, at the University of Arkansas. In May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Reisner
Marc Reisner (September 14, 1948 – July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book ''Cadillac Desert'', a history of water management in the American West. Early life He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of a lawyer and a scriptwriter, and graduated from Earlham College in 1970. Career For a time he was on the staffs of Environmental Action and the Population Institute in Washington, D.C. Starting in 1972, he worked for seven years as a staff writer and director of communications for the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. Writings and television work In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which enabled him to conduct research and write ''Cadillac Desert'', which was first published in 1986. According to The Guardian, ''Cadillac Desert'' illuminated the importance of water conservation in the American West with "the remarkable ability to explain entertainingly the complex, and often numbing, deals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Quammen
David Quammen (born February 24, 1948) is an American science, nature, and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. His articles have appeared in ''Outside Magazine'', ''National Geographic'', '' Harper's'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''The New Yorker'', and other periodicals. A collection of David Quammen's drafts, research, and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production, artifacts, maps, and other papers dated between 1856-2014. Early life and education David Quammen was born on February 24, 1948 to W.A. and Mary Quammen. He was raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated from St. Xavier High School (Cincinnati), St. Xavier High School in 1966. Following this, he was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship, aiding him in attending and graduating from Yale University, Yale. During his gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Michael Pyle
Robert Michael Pyle (born 19 July 1947) is an American lepidopterist, writer, teacher, and founder of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Much of his life story is told in the 2020 feature film ''The Dark Divide'', where Pyle is played by David Cross. Early life and education Pyle grew up in Denver and Aurora, Colorado, and took all of his early education in Aurora Public Schools, graduating in 1965. He attended the University of Washington, where he received a B.S. degree in "Nature Perception and Protection" in a self-styled General Studies program. This was followed by an M.S. in Nature Interpretation from the UW College of Forest Resources. During his time there he was also involved in environmental activism, serving on the university Conservation Council and testifying against unsustainable development plans. A Fulbright Scholarship in 1971-72 enabled Pyle to study butterfly conservation at the Monks Wood Experimental Station in Abbot's Ripton, England, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Peacock
Doug Peacock—born April 5th, 1942—is an American author, filmmaker, wildlife activist, and Vietnam War veteran. He is best known for his work dedicated to grizzly bear recovery in the lower-48, his book ''Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness'' and serving as the model for the well-known character George Washington Hayduke in Edward Abbey's novel ''The Monkey Wrench Gang''. Doug is the co-founder of several conservation organizations including ''Round River Conservation Studies'' and ''Save The Yellowstone Grizzly.'' In 1988 the award winning documentary ''Peacock’s War'' was released about Doug’s experiences in Vietnam and his efforts to study and protect grizzly bears. ''Peacock's War'' premiered on PBS ''Nature'', ''Channel 4 London'', and the ''Discovery Channel.'' In 2019, Doug starred in a film called ''Grizzly Country'', a follow-up documentary devoted to Doug’s then-and-now war experiences and the evolution of his work with grizzly bears. ''Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Norman
Howard A. Norman (born 1949), is an American writer and educator. Most of his short stories and novels are set in Canada's Maritime Provinces. He has written several translations of Algonquin, Cree, and Inuit folklore. His books have been translated into 12 languages. Early years Norman was born in Toledo, Ohio. His parents were Russian-Polish-Jewish; they met in a Jewish orphanage. The family moved several times and Norman attended four different elementary schools, including in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother watched other kids while his father was away most of the time. He is one of three brothers. After dropping out of high school, Norman moved to Toronto. Working in Manitoba on a fire crew with Cree Indians, Norman became fascinated with their folkstories and culture. He spent the next sixteen years living and writing in Canada, including the Hudson Bay area and the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. During this time, he received his high school equivalency dipl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan (born 1952) is an agricultural ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the plants and cultures of the desert Southwestern United States, Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement. Background A first-generation Lebanese American, Nabhan was raised in Gary, Indiana. He excelled in high school which gave him the opportunity to attend Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa for 18 months. He then transferred to Prescott College in Arizona, earning a B.A. in Environmental Biology in 1974, and has remained in-state ever since. He has an M.S. in plant sciences (horticulture) from the University of Arizona (1978), and a Ph.D. in the interdisciplinary arid lands resource sciences also at the University of Arizona ("Papago Fields: Arid Lands Ethnobotany and Agricultural Ecology", 1983). During this time he started working with, and learning from, the To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Brind Morrow
Susan Brind Morrow (born 1958) is an American author and poet. Morrow was born in Geneva, New York. She attended Barnard College then studied classics as an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University in New York. She also studied Arabic and worked intensively on hieroglyphic texts for six years as a student of Egyptology. Morrow has written three non-fiction books, The Dawning Moon of the Mind (2015), Wolves and Honey: a history of the natural world (2004), and The Name of Things (1997). She also wrote a play, “ Mr. Analogue 200.” Her first book, ''The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert'', is "travel writing and memoir threaded through with musings on the origins of words" which Annette Kobak says "manages to unlock a sense of the awe and poetry our most ancient ancestors must have felt in naming things for the first time". The book was partially inspired by the death of her younger brother. It was a finalist for the PEN: Martha Albrand Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill McKibben
William Ernest McKibben (born December 8, 1960)"Bill Ernest McKibben." ''Environmental Encyclopedia''. Edited by Deirdre S. Blanchfield. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, December 31, 2017. is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, ''The End of Nature'' (1989), about climate change, and '' Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?'' (2019), about the state of the environmental challenges facing humanity and future prospects. In 2009, he led 350.org's organization of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events in 188 countries, as he had told a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Lopez
Barry Holstun Lopez (January 6, 1945 – December 25, 2020) was an American author, essayist, nature writer, and fiction writer whose work is known for its humanitarian and environmental concerns. In a career spanning over 50 years, he visited more than 80 countries, and wrote extensively about a variety of landscapes including the Arctic wilderness, exploring the relationship between human cultures and nature. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for '' Arctic Dreams'' (1986) and his ''Of Wolves and Men'' (1978) was a National Book Award finalist. He was a contributor to magazines including ''Harper's Magazine'', ''National Geographic'', and ''The Paris Review''. Early life Lopez was born Barry Holstun Brennan on January 6, 1945, in Port Chester, New York, to Mary Frances (née Holstun) and John Brennan. His family moved to Reseda, California after the birth of his brother, Dennis, in 1948. He attended grade school at Our Lady of Grace during this time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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