Background
Keeble, John Robert was born on November 24, 1944 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Son of Raymond C.W. and Olivia Mae (Wallace) Keeble.
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Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries, 2011 Edition Broken Ground employs a construction project in the Oregon desert as the basis for a story with far-reaching political and moral implications. Hank Lafleur has been sent to supervise the project, which is a prison-for-profit financed by a multinational corporation under government contract, and meant to house felons, illegal immigrants, and, as Lafleur comes to learn, political prisoners from Latin America. Broken Ground is remarkable for its prophetic vision of the hollow securities promised by incarceration and of the effects of "privatization" as an armature of American imperialism-in both the domestic and international realms.
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(Ten years later, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Princ...)
Ten years later, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound remains the largest tanker spill in the history of North America, and in its devastating effects upon wildlife and habitat, arguably the most damaging tanker spill in the history of the world. First released in 1992, John Keeble's account, Out of the Channel, combined on-the-scene witnessing of the oil spill's lethal results with analysis of its ramifications upon ecology, community, economy, law, the nature of public information, and upon the American mythos. The aftermath of the oil spill, and no less transforming, the spill of Exxon's money and power, reached into every sector of Alaskan life as well as into the conscience of the people of the lower forty-eight states. The event is now seen as one of a handful of signal ecological disasters of the twentieth century. The new "Tenth Anniversary" edition of Out of the Channel adds to its evocative, original text as new and full assessment of the permutations and twists of big money, big litigation, and "petroleum speak" from the vantage point of several years' remove, as well as an account of the 1991, $1 billion civil settlement between Exxon, the U.S. Justice Department, and the State of Alaska—the largest such environmental settlement ever. In this now definitive book on the oil spill, all the primary concerns of the first edition are updated with new material, including the cause of the ship's grounding on Bligh Reef, the long lasting effects of the spill, the projected death toll among animals, the little-known 1993 fishermen's tanker blockade, late-developing evidence about the quantity of oil spilled, the benefits and abuses of professional science, as well as the heartening results of citizen pressure to improve oil shipping procedures in Prince William Sound and to protect fragile habitat.
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(Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-...)
Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one of whom has been grievously injured. The fourth, a fugitive and the son of a rich Chinese casino owner, means to settle a grudge with a Chinese American secret society, the Triad, but is himself being pursued. The tale of the perilous journey of these five men, along with a woman who becomes implicated in a double-cross, is filled with vivid fictional and historical characters. The whole of it conjures the story of the West itself. Click here for discussion questions for Yellowfish: http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/books/Yellowfish.pdf
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writer English writing educator
Keeble, John Robert was born on November 24, 1944 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Son of Raymond C.W. and Olivia Mae (Wallace) Keeble.
Bachelor, University Redlands, 1966. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1969. Postgraduate, Brown University, 1973.
Instructor in English Grinnell (Iowa) College, 1969-1971, writer-in-residence, 1971-1972. Professor Eastern Washington University, Cheney, since 1973. Coal Royalty Trust visiting chair creative writing University Alabama, 1992, 98.
Visiting professor University Alabama, 1995, 96.
(Ten years later, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Princ...)
(Ten years later, the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Princ...)
(Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and ...)
(Outstanding Title, University Press Books for Public and ...)
(Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-...)
Co-president board directors Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska, since 2005.
Married Claire Estelle Sheldon, September 4, 1964. Children: Jonathan Son of, Ezekiel J., Carson R.C.