Hoagland, Edward Coolbaugh, 1908-

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Birth 1908

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Edward Hoagland is a writer born in New York in 1932. Hoagland has written several books of fiction but since the late 1960s he has become known almost exclusivley for his non-fiction. His first novel, Cat Man, won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award in 1956. The Los Angeles Times has called Hoagland "one of our best and most esteemed nature writers." He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction in 1979 and a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1982. Hoagland has also contributed to numerous periodicals.

From the description of Edward Hoagland papers, 1953-2007 and undated. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 719389150