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Klinkenborg, Verlyn was born in 1952 in Colorado, United States.
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Timothy or Notes of an Abject Reptile
(Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history...)
Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal's own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg has done just that in Timothy: an insightful and utterly engaging story of the world's most famous tortoise, whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate and naturalist Gilbert White. For thirteen years, Timothy lived in White's garden. Here Klinkenborg gives the tortoise an unforgettable voice and keen powers of observation on both human and natural affairs. Wry and wise, unexpectedly moving and enchanting at every-careful-turn, Timothy surprises and delights.
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The Rural Life
(This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the nat...)
This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the natural world and the changing seasons which appear frequently in a column entitled "The Rural Life" on the editorial page of the "New York Times."
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Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile
(Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history...)
Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history of a particular animal by adopting the animal’s own sensibility. But Verlyn Klinkenborg has done just that in Timothy: an insightful and utterly engaging story of the world’s most famous tortoise, whose real life was observed by the eighteenth-century English curate and naturalist Gilbert White. For thirteen years, Timothy lived in White’s garden. Here Klinkenborg gives the tortoise an unforgettable voice and keen powers of observation on both human and natural affairs. Wry and wise, unexpectedly moving and enchanting at every–careful–turn, Timothy surprises and delights.
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The Last Fine Time
( By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history...)
By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history, The Last Fine Time is a tour de force of lyrical style. Verlyn Klinkenborg chronicles the life of a family-owned restaurant in Buffalo, New York, from its days as a prewar Polish tavern to its reincarnation as George & Eddie's, a swank nightspot serving highballs and French-fried shrimp to a generation of optimistic and prosperous Americans. In the inevitable dimming of the neon sign outside the restaurant, we see both the passing of an old world way of life and the end to the postwar exuberance that was Eddie Wenzek's "last fine time."
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Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Klinkenborg, Verlyn (2006) Hardcover
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(The Last Fine Time ) Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg May-2004
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Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile Paperback January 9, 2007
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Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile Hardcover - February 7, 2006
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Making Hay
("Making Hay" portrays life on family farms in northwester...)
"Making Hay" portrays life on family farms in northwestern Iowa, southwestern Minnesota, and the Big Hole of Montana -- depicting the feel of work and the feel of the land when the hay is ripe for gathering. With affection and humor, Klinkenborg evokes a way of life at risk.
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More Scenes from the Rural Life
(Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is o...)
Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is one of the most read and beloved in the New York Times. Since 1997, he has written eloquently on every aspect, large and small, of life on his upstate New York farm, including his animals, the weather and landscape, and the trials and rewards of physical labor, as well as broader issues about agriculture and land use behind farming today. Klinkenborg's pieces are admired as much for their poetic writing as for their insight: peonies are "the sheepdog of flowers," dry snow "tumbles off the angled end of the plow-blade as if each crystal were completely independent, almost charged with static electricity," and land is most valuable "for its silence, its freedom from language." Klinkenborg writes with a grace and understanding that makes us more aware of the world around us, whether we live on a farm or in the middle of a city. More Scenes from the Rural Life gathers together 150 of his best pieces since his last collection, The Rural Life, was published a decade ago. For anybody with an appreciation of nature, language, or both, this book is certain to delight.
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The Last Fine Time By Klinkenborg, Verlyn ( Author ) Paperback 2004
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Verlyn Klinkenborg
Edit ProfileEducation
He attended elementary school in Clarion, Iowa until the 6th grade at which time the family moved to Osage, Iowa. His family next moved to Sacramento, California after which he attended the University of California at Berkeley before transferring to Pomona College. He graduated from Pomona College, and holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University.
Career
Klinkenborg was raised on an Iowa farm belonging to his family. Klinkenborg taught literature and creative writing at Fordham University while living in the Bronx in the early to mid-1980s, and later at Saint Olaf College, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, and Harvard University. He currently teaches creative writing at Yale University and lives on a small farm in upstate New New York
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Making Hay
("Making Hay" portrays life on family farms in northwester...)
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The Rural Life
(This is a collection of Klinkenborg's writings on the nat...)
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Timothy or Notes of an Abject Reptile
(Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history...)
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Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile
(Few writers have attempted to explore the natural history...)
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The Last Fine Time
( By turns, an elegy, a celebration, and a social history...)
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More Scenes from the Rural Life
(Verlyn Klinkenborg's regular column, The Rural Life, is o...)
- Timothy; or; Notes of an Abject Reptile First Vintage Books Edition
- Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile by Klinkenborg, Verlyn (2006) Hardcover
- (The Last Fine Time ) Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg May-2004
- Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile Paperback January 9, 2007
- Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile Hardcover - February 7, 2006
- The Last Fine Time By Klinkenborg, Verlyn ( Author ) Paperback 2004
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Making Hay
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Recipient Before Columbus Foundation American Book award, 1991, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's award, 1992-1995. National Endowment for Arts fellowship, 1988-1989.Recipient Before Columbus Foundation American Book award, 1991, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's award, 1992-1995. National Endowment for Arts fellowship, 1988-1989.