Chip Rawlins (born 1949) is an American writer and the co-author of '' The Complete Walker IV'' with

Colin Fletcher Colin Fletcher (14 March 1922 – 12 June 2007) was a pioneering backpacker and writer. In 1963, Fletcher walked the length of that portion of Grand Canyon contained within the 1963 boundaries of Grand Canyon National Park. Although ...

. He also publishes under the name C. L. Rawlins . Rawlins is a non-fiction writer, poet, outdoor guide, and instructor. Previous jobs include: firefighter, science editor, and field

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Biography

Rawlins was born in 1949, in

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. He went to

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and was a

Wallace Stegner Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909 – April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalism, environmentalist, and historian, often called "The Dean of Western Writers". He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U. ...

Fellow at Stanford University. He lives in Laramie, where he has served as president of the

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and on the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He has also lived in

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Books

* ''A Ceremony on Bare Ground'' (1985) * ''Sky's Witness: A year in the Wind River Range'' (Henry Holt, 1993) * ''Broken Country: Mountains and Memory'' (Henry Holt, 1996) * ''In Gravity National Park'' (University of Nevada, 1998) * ''The Complete Walker IV'' (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)

Awards

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National Primitive Skills Award *1999 Poetry Prize from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association * Stegner Fellowship

References

External links

Wyoming Authors Wiki Entry
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rawlins, Chip Living people American travel writers American male non-fiction writers American nature writers Writers from Wyoming Utah State University alumni Stanford University alumni People from Laramie, Wyoming Place of birth missing (living people) Stegner Fellows 1949 births