Richard "Dick" Manning is an American environmental author and journalist who writes about music, neuroscience, and agriculture.

Career

Manning is the author of 11 books and has worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for more than 40 years, including four years at the ''

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''. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. He is a three-time winner of the ''

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'' C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and also won the

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Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992. He writes frequently about the environment, neuroscience and music. He was a senior research associate at the National Native Children's Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he wrote about trauma and poverty. In addition to his eleven books, his articles have been published in ''

Harper's Magazine ''Harper's Magazine'' is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts. Launched in New York City in June 1850, it is the oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. (''Scientific American'' is older, b ...

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The Bloomsbury Review ''The Bloomsbury Review'' (''TBR'') was a nationally distributed literary magazine founded by Thomas Auer (1953–2003) in Denver, Colorado in 1980. It focused on small, regional, university, and international presses, as well as "smaller" titles ...

''.

Personal life

He lives with his wife,

Tracy Stone-Manning Tracy Stone-Manning (born 1965) is an American environmental policy advisor who is the current director of the Bureau of Land Management in the Biden administration. Early life and education Stone-Manning was born in Springfield, Virginia. S ...

, in Montana and Washington, D.C.

Books

*''Last Stand'' (1991) *''A Good House'' (1994) *''Grassland'' (1997) *''One Round River'' (1998) *''Food's Frontier'' (2001) *''Inside Passage'' (2001) *''Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization'' (2004) *''Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape'' (2009) *''It Runs in the Family'' (2013) *''Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization'' (2014) *''If It Sounds Good, It is Good'' (2020)

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manning, Richard Living people American non-fiction environmental writers Writers from Missoula, Montana American agricultural writers American male non-fiction writers Agricultural writers 1951 births