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Title American nature writers / John Elder, editor
Published New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, Macmillan Library Reference USA, Simon and Schuster Macmillan ; [1996]
London : Simon and Schuster and Prentice Hall International, [1996]
©1996
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Description 1 online resource (2 volumes (xxiii, 1210 pages)) : illustrations, portraits
Series Gale virtual reference library
Gale virtual reference library.
Contents v. 1 -- Edward Abbey / Zita Ingham -- Diane Ackerman / David M. Robinson -- Mary Hunter Austin / John P. O'Grady -- Florence Merriam Bailey / Harriet Kofalk -- William Bartram / Philip G. Terrie -- Rick Bass / Terrell F. Dixon -- Wendell Berry / Herman Nibbelink -- Henry Beston / Daniel G. Payne -- John Burroughs / Ralph W. Black -- Sally Carrighar / Gale Lawrence -- Rachel Carson / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Anna Botsford Comstock / Marcia Myers Bonta -- Susan Fenimore Cooper / Lucy B. Maddox -- H.L. Davis / Paul T. Bryant -- Annie Dillard / Don Scheese -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas / Melissa Walker -- Gretel Ehrlich / Stephanie Kaza -- Virginia Eifert / Karen Knowles -- Loren Eiseley / Fred Taylor -- Ralph Waldo Emerson / Michael P. Branch -- Robert Finch / J. Parker Huber -- John Graves / Mark Busby -- Linda Hasselstrom / Kathleen Danker -- John Hay / Cynthia Huntington -- Edward Hoagland / David W. Teague -- Linda Hogan / Hertha D. Wong -- Helen Hoover / Nancy Freehafer -- Sue Hubbell / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- John Janovy, Jr. / Steven B. Shively -- Cathy Johnson / Alison R. Byerly -- Josephine Johnson / Vera Norwood -- Diana Kappel-Smith / Karen Knowles -- Joseph Wood Krutch / Stuart C. Brown -- Maxine Kumin / Hilda Raz -- Anne LaBastille / Kate H. Winter -- William Least Heat-Moon / David W. Teague -- Aldo Leopold / Peter A. Fritzell -- Barry Lopez / John Tallmadge -- Faith McNulty / Aina Niemela -- John McPhee / Michael Pearson -- volume 2 -- Pater Matthiessen / Daniel G. Payne -- Enos Mills / John Dotson -- John Hanson Mitchell / Terrell F. Dixon -- N. Scott Momaday / Matthias Schubnell -- John Muir / Thomas J. Lyon -- Gary Paul Nabhan / Sara L. St. Antoine -- Richard K. Nelson / John Tallmadge -- Sigurd F. Olson / John Cooley -- Noel Perrin / Cynthia Huntington -- Brenda Peterson / Lisa Knopp -- Robert Michael Pyle / Michael Pearson -- David Quammen / Marilyn Chandler McEntyre -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Betsy S. Hilbert -- Chet Raymo / Fred Taylor -- Hope Ryden / Sydney Landon Plum -- Scott Russell Sanders / William Nichols -- Ernest Thompson Seton / Lisa Knopp -- Leslie Marmon Silko / Thomas K. Dean -- Gary Snyder / Patrick D. Murphy -- Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher / Marcia Myers Bonta -- Wallace Stegner / Neil B. Carmony -- Gene Stratton Porter / Sydney Landon Plum -- Edwin Way Teale / Stan Tag -- Celia Thaxter / Vera Norwood -- Lewis thomas / Alison R. Byerly -- Henry David Thoreau / Lawrence Buell -- John C. Van Dyke / Peter Wild -- David Rains Wallace / Michael Kowalewski -- Terry Tempest Williams / Lorraine Anderson -- Ann Zwinger / Peter Wild -- African Americas, writing and nature / David Lionel Smith -- Bioregionalism in nature writing / David Robertson -- Canadian nature writing in English / Rebecca Raglon -- Contemporary ecofiction / Nicholas O'Connell -- Early romantic natural history literature (1782-1836) / Michael P. Branch -- The forms of American nature poetry / Christopher Merrill -- Literary theory and nature writing / Michael P. Cohen -- Literature of mountaineering / Mikel Vause -- Modern birdwatching literature / Deborah Strom Gibbons -- Nature in native American literatures / Hertha D. Wong -- New voices in American nature writing / Lorraine Anderson -- Western geologists and explorers: Clarence King and John Wesley Powell / John Tallmadge
vol. 1. Edward Abbey to John McPhee -- volume 2. Peter Matthiessen to Western geologists and explorers
Summary Provides a history and criticism of the nature writing genre and biographical and critical essays on individual writers, including novelists, playwrights, essayists, poets, and short story writers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries.
American literature -- Dictionaries.
Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries.
Natural history -- United States -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Natural history -- United States -- Historiography -- Dictionaries
Nature in literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries
Nature in literature -- Dictionaries
Nature writers -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries
American literature.
Authors, American.
Natural history -- Historiography.
Natural history.
Nature in literature.
Nature writers.
United States.
Genre/Form Bio-bibliography.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Elder, John, 1947-
ISBN 0684316021
9780684316024