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Scott Sanders
BornOctober 26, 1945
Memphis, Tennessee
OccupationProfessor, novelist and essayist
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEcology & conservation, personal essay
Notable awardsJohn Burroughs Natural History Essay Award (2000)
Lannan Literary Award (1995)
Website
scottrussellsanders.com

Scott Russell Sanders (born 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American novelist and essayist.

Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. A contributing editor for Orion magazine, he has won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award, the Indiana Authors Award, and the Mark Twain Award, among other honors. A frequent public lecturer, Sanders also conducts writing workshops across the United States, including recent ones in Alaska, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon, and New Mexico. He received the Lannan Literary Award in 1995 for his non-fiction writing and has received the Frederick Bachman Lieber Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award given at IU. In 2012 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sanders is judging the 2016 Permafrost Book Prize in Nonfiction for Permafrost: Literary Journal.

Sanders was a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, where he taught from 1971 until his retirement in 2009. During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and as a Visiting Professor at University of Oregon, MIT, and Beloit College . He is married with two children, Eva and Jesse, both of whom he addresses in letters included in The Force of Spirit. He and his wife, Ruth, a biochemist, live in Bloomington, Indiana, in the watershed of the White River.

Works

Fiction

Novels

  • Terrarium (1985) ISBN 0-253-32956-6
  • Bad Man Ballad (1986) ISBN 0-02-778230-1
  • The Engineer of Beasts (1986) ISBN 0-531-05783-6
  • The Invisible Company (1989) ISBN 0-8125-5382-9
  • Divine Animal (2014) ISBN 978-0-9913102-2-7

Short Story Collections

Creative non-fiction/essays

Children's books

References