Edward Abbey (1927–1989)
Autor(a) de Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
About the Author
Edward Abbey was born January 29, 1927 in Indiana, Pennsylvania, and grew up in nearby Home. After military service in Naples, Italy, from 1945-47, he enrolled in Indiana University of Pennsylvania for a year before traveling to the West. He fell in love with the desert Southwest and eventually mostrar mais attended the University of New Mexico, where he obtained both graduate and post-graduate degrees. Abbey was a Fulbright Fellow from 1951-52. Abbey was an anarchist and a radical environmentalist; these positions are reflected in his writings. His novel Fire on the Mountain won the Western Heritage Award for Best Novel in 1963. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, considered by many to be his best work, is nonfiction that reflects Abbey's love for the American Southwest and draws on his experiences as a park ranger. Among his best-known works are The Brave Cowboy (1956), The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), and The Fool's Progress (1988). In 1966 The Brave Cowboy was made into a movie titled Lonely Are the Brave, starring Kirk Douglas. Two collections of essays have been published since his death in 1989: Confessions of a Barbarian in 1994 and The Serpents of Paradise the following year. In 1987, Abbey was offered the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, but he declined. Abbey died in March 1989, near Tucson, Arizona, from complications following surgery. He did not want a traditional burial but rather requested to be buried in the Arizona desert, where he could nourish the earth which had been the subject of so many of his works. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Edward Abbey
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal (1989) 227 exemplares
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 (1994) 227 exemplares
Guadalupe's Trails in Summer 1 exemplar
The Secret of the Green Mask 1 exemplar
Theory of Anarchy 1 exemplar
The Rain and the Fire and the Will of God 1 exemplar
Desert Skin 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 81 exemplares
Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places (Adrenaline) (1999) — Contribuidor — 58 exemplares
Appalachian odyssey : walking the trail from Georgia to Maine (1977) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 44 exemplares
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (2002) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Canyonlands Country: A Guidebook of the Four Corners Geological Society — Introdução, algumas edições — 2 exemplares
TriQuarterly 48: Western Stories — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Abbey, Edward
- Nome legal
- Abbey, Edward Paul
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-01-29
- Data de falecimento
- 1989-03-14
- Localização do túmulo
- Cabeza Prieta Desert, Ajo, Arizona, USA
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Tucson, Arizona, USA
- Causa da morte
- portal hypertension, a consequence of end stage liver cirrhosis
- Locais de residência
- Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Moab, Utah, USA - Educação
- University of New Mexico (BA | 1951 | MA | 1956 | Philosophy)
University of Edinburgh (Fulbright Scholar)
Stanford University (Stegner Fellow)
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Ocupações
- author
essayist
seasonal ranger - Organizações
- United States Army
University of Arizona
United States National Park Service - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award (1978)
Western Heritage Award for Best Novel (1963)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1987, declined)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
1970s (1)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 41
- Also by
- 20
- Membros
- 12,477
- Popularidade
- #1,879
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 199
- ISBN
- 236
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 80