Verlyn Klinkenborg
Verlyn Klinkenborg (born 1952 in Meeker, Colorado) is an American non-fiction author and newspaper editor.
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Early life[edit]
Klinkenborg was raised on an Iowa farm belonging to his family.[1] He attended elementary school in Clarion, Iowa until the 6th grade at which time the family moved to Osage. He graduated from Pomona College, and holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Klinkenborg taught literature and creative writing at Fordham University while living in the Bronx in the early to mid-1980s, and later at St. Olaf College, Bennington College and Harvard University. In 1991 he received the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writer's Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.[2] He lives on a small farm in upstate New York.[1]
Work[edit]
Klinkenborg's books include The Rural Life, Making Hay and The Last Fine Time.
His book Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile concerns the tortoise which the English eighteenth century parson-naturalist Gilbert White inherited from his aunt, as described in his 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.[3] In the first half of 2006, Klinkenborg posted a farm and garden blog about The Rural Life, consisting of entries from the daily journal kept by Gilbert White in Selborne in 1784, and his own complementary daily entries.[4]
Since 1997, he has been a member of the editorial board of The New York Times.[5]
Klinkenborg has published articles in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, National Geographic and Mother Jones magazines.
He has written a series of editorial opinions in The New York Times; these are generally literary meditations on rural farm life. He was the 2006-2007 visiting writer-in-residence at Pomona College, where he taught nonfiction writing. In 2007, he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which funded his book The Mermaids of Lapland, about William Cobbett.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b [1]
- ^ "Verlyn Klinkenborg". Bard.edu. Retrieved March 8, 2012.[dead link]
- ^ Mabey, Richard (1986). Gilbert White: A biography of the author of The Natural History of Selborne. Century Hutchinson. pp. 130, 176–179. ISBN 0-7126-1794-9.
- ^ Klinkenborg's 2006 New York Times garden blog. Retrieved 15 May 2013
- ^ "New York Times". Nytimes.com. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
- ^ "Pomona College : News@Pomona". Pomona.edu. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Biography from The New York Times
- "Once a progressive state, Minnesota is now a fief of the NRA" from The New York Times, September 5, 2006
- Who is Verlyn Klinkenborg and why should we care? (2006)
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