The Orion Society Audio-Visual Collection, 1994-2004

Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010

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Lucille Clifton (1936- 2010), African American poet and children's book author. She was born Thelma Lucille Clifton on June 27, 1936 to Samuel L. Sayles, Sr. and Thelma Moore Sayles in Depew, New York. At the age of seven, the Sayles family moved to nearby Buffalo, New York. From 1953-1955, Lucille attended Howard University from 1953-1955 and Fredonia State Teachers College (now State University of New York College at Fredonia) in 1955. Clifton's first volume of poetry, GOOD TIMES, was publishe...

Deming, Alison Hawthorne, 1946-....

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Kittredge, William

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Lopez, Barry Holstun, 1945-....

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Barry Lopez is a writer of both fictional short stories and non-fiction works. His awards are numerous: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Award, John Burroughs Medal for Of Wolves and Men, and National Book Award for Arctic Dreams. Lopez was raised in California and New York City and currently lives in Oregon. From the description of Barry Lopez papers, 1964-2001 and undated. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 545...

Elder, John, 1947-....

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Hass, Robert

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Rogers, Pattiann

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Orr, David

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Williams, Terry Tempest

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Nelson, Richard K. (Richard King), 1941-

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Blake, H. Emerson

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Pollan, Michael

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Gilliam, Marion

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Abram, David, 1957-.....

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Nabhan, Gary Paul

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Gary Paul Nabhan was born in Gary, Indiana on March 17, 1952. His formal education includes a B.A. from Prescott College in Arizona (1974) and a M.S. from the University of Arizona (1978). In 1982, he received a Ph.D. in Arid Land Resources from the University of Arizona. Nabhan founded Renewing America’s Food Traditions (RAFT). He directs the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona and is involved with Sabores Sin Fronteras. An ethnobotanist, he is works to encourage local fo...

Snyder, Gary

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Berry, Wendell, 1934-....

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American author and professor. From the description of Wendell Berry postcard : to Mr. Bob DeMott, 1973 July 14. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 173203844 ...

Bagby, Rachel L.

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Mills, Stephanie, 1948-

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Eady, Cornelius

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Matthiessen, Peter

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Sneed, Catherine, 1954-

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Stafford, Kim Robert

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Kim Robert Stafford was born on October 15, 1949 in Portland, Oregon, one of four children of Dorothy and William Stafford, who was also a poet. Stafford’s interest in nature dominates his poetry and essays, which focus on the relationship of people with nature and social custom. Kim Stafford has spent most of his life in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in Oregon. He received his college and graduate education at the University of Oregon where he obtained his B. A. i...

Pyle, Robert Michael

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Smith, Annick, 1936-

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Annick Smith is a writer and filmmaker whose work deals primarily with the literature and history of Montana, memoir, travel, and environmental issues. Born in Paris, France, in 1936, she grew up in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1964, she has lived in Montana, where her husband, David Smith taught at the University of Montana. After his death, she stayed on their rural homestead and raised their four sons. Annick Smith has worked as a high school teacher, a book editor for the University of Washingto...

Witt, Susan

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Hogan, Linda

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Bass, Rick, 1958-....

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Novelist Rick Bass lives and works in Montana. From the description of Rick Bass Papers, 1958-[ongoing], (bulk 1987-1994). (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 48244246 Rick Bass is a writer and environmental activist. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1958, but spent much of his youth in Houston. He graduated from Utah State with a degree in geology and then worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi. In 1987 Bass moved to Montana and began writin...

Jackson, Wes

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Winter, Paul

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Sanders, Scott R. (Scott Russell), 1945-

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Author and educator Scott Russell Sanders was born in Tennessee and raised in Ohio. Sanders studied at Brown University and earned his Ph.D. as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University. Among his twenty books are novels, collections of stories, and works of personal nonfiction, including Staying Put (1993), Writing from the Center (1995), and Hunding for Hope (1998). His memoir, A Private History of Awe (2006), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His writing examines the human place in nature,...

Orion Society

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The Orion Society, founded in 1992, is a group of nature writers, environmentalists, and activists who believe that “humans are morally responsible for the world in which we live, and that the individual comes to sense this responsibility as he or she develops a personal bond with nature” (www.orionsociety.org). The Society focuses on teaching how nature and communities might be healed. Four important events in the Society’s history which this collection documents are: the Forgotten Language Tou...