Background
McCord, Howard Lawrence was born on November 3, 1932 in El Paso, Texas, United States. Son of Frank Edward McCord and Sylvia Joy (Coe) Beaird.
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The Duke of Chemical Birds and Other Risables
(By Howard McCord. Out of print first edition.)
By Howard McCord. Out of print first edition.
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Walking to Extremes
(For more than sixty-five years, since the age of twelve, ...)
For more than sixty-five years, since the age of twelve, Howard McCord has been a walker, rock climber, and spelunker across three continents -- and a poet-philosopher of the interactions between the mind and the natural world through more than twenty books. In Walking to Extremes, McCord recounts hiking the arctic deserts of Iceland and the hot deserts of New Mexico, and of returning after many years to a peak in the Organ Mountains. He writes with the compelling vitality of an adventurer and the engaging curiosity of a naturalist and historian, making Walking to Extremes an essential book for the armchair explorder as well as the most ardent backpacker. With five photographs and one drawing.
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The arctic desert
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The Man Who Walked to The Moon: A Novella
(Joining the fictional investigations of masculine prowess...)
Joining the fictional investigations of masculine prowess by Jim Harrison, Paul Bowles, and Thomas McGuane, there now comes this extraordinary evocation of the twin wildernesses of amorality–the natural and the human. The setting is the Steen mountains in Nevada. The man who walks them tells this story: "My name is Gasper, William Gasper, and I do nothing for a living but live, simply. I prefer walking alone to all other steady activities. Doubtless such a vocation reflects as social inadequacy in my personality. However, since I have nothing to contribute to society of much worth, save an icy mind, I can imagine myself only a laborer or small clerk, a servitor as I was to the military. It has never been of any importance to me to seek a means by which I might be more comfortable with others or others with me..." Gasper walks one mountain in particular: the Moon. As he relates with a sharp-honed style the story of what happens on that mountain, menace and dread ever so gradually take hold, until at last the reader discovers who this man really is, what he has done, and what he will do when he comes down. In this entrancingly brief novel, Howard McCord has written an eerily exacting portrait of a psyche as old as myth and as new as every politician’s nightmare.
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Walking to Extremes by Howard McCord (2008) Paperback
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- Great Toad Hunt and Other Expeditions (111 pages)
Howard Lawrence McCord
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Howard Lawrence McCord, American English educator. Ohio Arts Council fellow, Columbus, 1979, 86, National Endowment for Arts fellow, 1976, 83; recipient Ohioana Poetry award Ohioana Library. Association, Columbus, 1990, Golden Nugget award University Texas, El Paso, 1990, Ethel Fortner Writer award St. Andrews College, 2007. With United States Navy, 1951-1954, Korea. Member Western Writers American.
Education
Bachelor, University Texas, El Paso, 1957. Master of Arts, University Utah, 1958. Postgraduate, University Mysore, India, 1965.
Career
Instructor to associate professor Washington State University, Pullman, 1960-1971. Professor English Bowling Green State University, Ohio, 1971—1997, professor emeritus, since 1997, director creative writing program, 1971—1980, 1993—1997. Visiting professor California State University, Northridge, 1976, University Alaska, Juneau, 1979-1981.
Director Coordinating Council Literature Magazines, New York City, 1972-1978. Literature panel National Endowment for Arts, Washington, 1978-1979. Chairman literature panel Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, 1980-1982.
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Walking to Extremes
(For more than sixty-five years, since the age of twelve, ...)
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The Man Who Walked to The Moon: A Novella
(Joining the fictional investigations of masculine prowess...)
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The Duke of Chemical Birds and Other Risables
(By Howard McCord. Out of print first edition.)
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Great Toad Hunt and Other Expeditions
(111 pages)
- The arctic desert
- Walking to Extremes by Howard McCord (2008) Paperback
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Walking to Extremes
Membership
With United States Navy, 1951-1954, Korea. Member Western Writers American.
Interests
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Married Dora Gracia Ochoa, April 19, 1953 (divorced May 1975). Children: Colman Garcia, Robert Ochoa. Married Jennifer Sue Revis, July 25, 1975.
Children: Susannah, Julia, Wyatt Asher, Eva Ariella.
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American
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1960 - 1971
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1971 - 1997
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Ohio Arts Council fellow, Columbus, 1979, 86, National Endowment for Arts fellow, 1976, 83. Recipient Ohioana Poetry award Ohioana Library. Association, Columbus, 1990, Golden Nugget award University Texas, El Paso, 1990, Ethel Fortner Writer award St. Andrews College, 2007.Ohio Arts Council fellow, Columbus, 1979, 86, National Endowment for Arts fellow, 1976, 83. Recipient Ohioana Poetry award Ohioana Library. Association, Columbus, 1990, Golden Nugget award University Texas, El Paso, 1990, Ethel Fortner Writer award St. Andrews College, 2007.