Background
John Price was born in 1966 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States.
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Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
John Price attended the University of Iowa where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Nonfiction Writing and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English.
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Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
John Price attended the University of Iowa where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Nonfiction Writing and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English.
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Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American
(Not Just Any Land is a memoir of Price’s rediscovery of h...)
Not Just Any Land is a memoir of Price’s rediscovery of his place in the American landscape and of his search for a new relationship to the life of the prairie that once an immense and beautiful wilderness of grass now so depleted and damaged as to test even the deepest faith. Price’s journey toward a conscious commitment to place takes him to some of America’s largest remaining grasslands and brings him face to face with a troubling, but also a hopeful, personal and environmental legacy.
https://www.amazon.com/Not-Just-Any-Land-Grasslands/dp/0803260261
2004
Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
(John price's story is one of family and place, rich with ...)
John price's story is one of family and place, rich with wild creatures, with his Swedish ancestors, with neighbors, and with his prairie home. His work, deeply grounded in the grasslands of the Midwest, is, like that of Edward Abbey or Aldo Leopold, tied to place yet elevated by experiences that know no boundaries.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009G1VVUM/?tag=2022091-20
2008
Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father
(In his quest to become a better father, Price faces many ...)
In his quest to become a better father, Price faces many unexpected challenges like understanding his grandmother’s decision to die and supporting his nature-loving sons’ decision to make their home a “no-kill zone” for all living creatures. Still, he finds the second chance he was looking for to save himself and, perhaps, his small corner of an imperfect yet still beautiful world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611800021/?tag=2022091-20
2013
The Tallgrass Prairie
(The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and...)
The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and seemingly endless landscape of wildflowers and grasses, is now a tiny remnant of its former expanse. As a literary landscape, with much of the American environmental imagination focused on a mainstream notion of more spectacular examples of wild beauty, tallgrass is even more neglected. Prairie author and advocate John T. Price wondered what it would take to restore tallgrass prairie to its rightful place at the center of our collective identity.
https://www.amazon.com/Tallgrass-Prairie-Reader-Bur-Book-ebook/dp/B00KMQ6QQO/?tag=2022091-20
2014
John T. Price
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John Price attended the University of Iowa where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion, a Master of Fine Arts degree in Nonfiction Writing and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in English.
Career
John Price began his academic career at the University of Nebraska at Omaha as an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at first. Presently, he is a Professor of English there, where he directs the nonfiction writing program.
John T. Price is the author of the memoirs "Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American" that was written in 2004, "Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships" in 2008, "Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father" in 2013. He is the editor of the nature anthology "The Tallgrass Prairie Reader" that came out in 2014 and has been a contributor to periodicals, including Creative Nonfiction, North Dakota Quarterly, and Christian Science Monitor.
Achievements
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John T. Price is the award-winning author of the memoirs Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships and Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American Grasslands. He was nominated to Pushcart Prize in 1998 and was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2004-2005.
John’s nonfiction writing has appeared in many journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies including Orion, The Christian Science Monitor, Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Best Spiritual Writing 2000.
Works
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Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American
(Not Just Any Land is a memoir of Price’s rediscovery of h...)
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Daddy Long Legs: The Natural Education of a Father
(In his quest to become a better father, Price faces many ...)
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The Tallgrass Prairie
(The tallgrass prairie of the early 1800s, a beautiful and...)
2014 -
Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships
(John price's story is one of family and place, rich with ...)
2008
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Not Just Any Land: A Personal and Literary Journey into the American
Connections
John Price is married to Stephanie. They have two children, Benjamin and Spencer.
