Background
O'Grady, John Patrick was born on March 3, 1958 in Newark. Son of Joseph Gabriel and Muriel Catherine (Cotter) O'G.
( Pilgrims to the Wild is a survey of American writers wh...)
Pilgrims to the Wild is a survey of American writers who have responded to their encounters with the natural world. Ranging in its treatment from Thoreau’s important but neglected essay, 'Walking,' to the exuberant letters of the young artist Everett Ruess (who disappeared in the Escalante canyonlands), this is a broadly based exploration that brings to bear Eastern and Western classical philosophy, as well as contemporary critical theory, on a distinctive tradition of American Writing—those works concerned with the human relationship to the nonhuman world. In addition to offering a fresh interpretation of classic authors such a Thoreau and Muir, this book introduces readers to the less widely known but equally fascinating writers Clarence King and Mary Austin.
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O'Grady, John Patrick was born on March 3, 1958 in Newark. Son of Joseph Gabriel and Muriel Catherine (Cotter) O'G.
Bachelor of Science in Forestry, University Maine, 1980. Master of Arts in English, University Maine, 1983. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University California, Davis, 1991.
Academic programmer, U. Maine, Orono, 1983-1985; instructor, University of California, Davis, 1985-1991; lecturer, University of California, Davis, 1991-1994; lecturer, Guttenberg U., Mainz, Germany, 1987-1988; assistant Professor of English, Boise (Idaho) State University, since 1994.
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Member Modern Language Association, Association for Study of Literature and the Environment, Forest History Society.