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Edward Hoagland (born December 21, 1932) is an American author best known for his nature and travel writing. Life Hoagland was born in New York, New York and attended Harvard University. He joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the summers of 1951 and 1952. He helped to tend the big cats and later sold a novel about this experience, Cat Man (1955), before graduating from Harvard in 1954. After serving two years in the Army, he published The Circle Home (1960), a novel about boxing, before going on the first of nine trips to Alaska and British Columbia. During the 1970s, he made the first two of his five trips to Africa. After receiving two Guggenheim Fellowships, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. He has taught at The New School, Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, the University of Iowa, U.C. Davis, Columbia University, Beloit College, and Brown University. In 2005, Hoagland retired from a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont. Since 1968, he has focused most of his energies on Montaigne-type essays. According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Hoagland's love of solitude and silent observation of wildlife rather than social conversation may have resulted from a severe stammer that still persists. This stammer has, according to Hoagland himself, influenced how he writes: "Words are spoken at considerable cost to me, so a great value is placed on each one. That has had some effect on me as a writer. As a child, since I couldn't talk to people, I became close to animals. I became an observer, and in all my books, even the novels, witnessing things is what counts." His reluctance to speak may account for his desire to write—and be read—and for the sensitive visual, tactile, and olfactory images in his writings. Since his retirement, he has spent his summers in Barton, Vermont at a place he has owned since 1969, and his winters in Martha's Vineyard. Critique His non-fiction has been widely praised by writers such as John Updike, who called him "the best essayist of my generation." Bibliography Books Cat Man, Houghton Mifflin, 1956; NAL, 1958; Ballantine, 1973; Arbor House, 1984; Lyons Press, 2003 The Circle Home, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1960; Avon, 1977; Lyons Press, 2003 The Peacock's Tail, McGraw-Hill, 1965 Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia, Random House, 1969; Ballantine, 1972; North Point Press, 1982; Sierra Club Books, 1995; Modern Library, 2002 The Courage of Turtles, Random House, 1971; Warner, 1974; North Point Press, 1985; Lyons & Burford, 1993 Walking the Dead Diamond River, Random House, 1973; Warner, 1974; North Point Press, 1985; Lyons & Burford, 1993 The Moose on the Wall, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974 Red Wolves and Black Bears, Random House, 1976; Penguin, 1983; Lyons & Burford, 1995 African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan, Random House, 1979; Penguin, 1981; Lyons & Burford, 1995 The Edward Hoagland Reader, Random House, 1979; Vintage, 1981 The Tugman's Passage, Random House, 1982; Penguin, 1983; Lyons & Burford, 1995 City Tales, Capra Press, 1986 Seven Rivers West, Simon & Schuster, 1986; Penguin, 1987; Lyons Press, 2003 Heart's Desire, Simon & Schuster, 1988; Collins Harville, 1990; Touchstone, 1991 The Final Fate of the Alligators, Capra Press, 1992 Balancing Acts, Simon & Schuster, 1992, Touchstone, 1993; Lyons Press, 1999 Tigers & Ice, Lyons Press, 1999 Compass Points, Pantheon, 2001; Vintage, 2002 Hoagland on Nature, Lyons Press, 2003 Early in the Season, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008 Sex and the River Styx, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2011 Alaskan Travels, Arcade Publishing, 2012 Children Are Diamonds, Arcade Publishing, 2013 Short stories "Cowboys," The Noble Savage, No. 1, February 1960 "The Last Irish Fighter," Esquire, August 1960 "The Witness," The Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1967 "The Colonel's Power," New American Review, No. 2, January 1968 "Kwan's Coney Island," New American Review, No. 5, January 1969 "A Fable of Mammas," Transatlantic Review, No. 32, Summer 1969 "The Final Fate of the Alligators," The New Yorker, October 18, 1969 "Seven Rivers West," Esquire, July 1986 "The Mind's Eye," The Nature of Nature, (ed. 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Shore), Harcourt, 1994 "The Devil's Tub," Yale Review, Autumn, 2005 "Triage Along the Nile," Conjunctions, Fall 2008 "In Africa," New Letters, vol. 74, Fall 2008 Essays "The Big Cats," Esquire, April 1961 "The Draft Card Gesture," Commentary, February 1968 "Notes from the Century Before," The Paris Review, Winter 1968 "On Not Being a Jew," Commentary, April 1968 "The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain," The Village Voice, October 17, 1968 "The Courage of Turtles," The Village Voice, December 12, 1968 "The Elephant Trainer and the Man on Stilts," The Village Voice, April 17, 1969 "Why this Extra Violence," The Village Voice, May 8, 1969 "Knights and Squires: For Love of the Tugs," The Village Voice, May 29, 1969 "The Problem of the Golden Rule," Commentary, August 1969 "Blitzes and Holding Actions," The Village Voice, October 16, 1969 "Books, Movies, the News," Book World, November 9, 1969 "Home is Two Places," Commentary, February 1970 "The Circus in 1970," The Village Voice, April 9, 1970 "The Moose on the Wall," New American Review, No. 9, April 1970 "Americana by the Acre," Harper's, October 1970 "Meatcutters Are a Funny Bunch," The Village Voice, December 17, 1970 "The Portland Freight Run," The Atlantic, February 1971 "The War in the Woods," Harper's, February 1971 "Splendid, with Trumpets," The Village Voice, April 8, 1971 "Two Clowns," Life, April 25, 1971 "The Assassination Impulse," The Village Voice, May 27, 1971 "Of Cows and Cambodia," The Atlantic, July 1971 "The Soul of the Tiger," Esquire, July 1971 "Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion," The New Yorker, August 7, 1971 "Jane Street's Samurai," The Village Voice, November 25, 1971 "Nobody Writes Stories about Unicorns," The Village Voice, December 16, 1971 "Passions and Tensions," The Village Voice, February 2, 1972 "On the Question of Dogs," The Village Voice, March 30, 1972 "City Rat," Audience, March–April 1972 "Women Aflame," The Village Voice, April 27, 1972 "Marriage, Fame, Power, Success," The Village Voice, May 18, 1972 "In the Toils of the Law," The Atlantic, June 1972 "Looking for Wilderness," The Atlantic, August 1972 "Thoughts on Returning to the Mountain..." The Village Voice, November, 1972 "Heart's Desire," Audience, November–December 1972 "Howling Back at the Wolves," Saturday Review, December 1972 "Wall Maps and Woodpeckers," The Village Voice, January 25, 1973 "Fred King on the Allagash," Audience, January–February 1973 "Mountain Towers," The Village Voice, February 15, 1973 "At Pinkham Notch," The Village Voice, March 15, 1973 "Wildlands in Vermont," The Village Voice, March 22, 1973 "In a Lair with a Bear," Sports Illustrated, March 26, 1973 "Tricks, Innocence, Pathos, Perfection," The Village Voice, May 10, 1973 "The .... Discover the John Muir Edward Hoagland popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Muir Edward Hoagland books.