Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 3 (1987) Winner
Gretel Ehrlich
グレーテル・エーリッヒ
Gureteru Eririhi
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1946-01-21 （Santa Barbara, California）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Wyoming ranch
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Poet, Essayist, Travel writer
- Active Years
- 1978-2024
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennington College | — | — | — | — | United States |
| UCLA | Film school | — | — | — | United States |
Bennington College
Country:
United States
UCLA
Film school
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Whiting Award | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | Henry David Thoreau Prize | — | — | PEN New England | 受賞 |
Whiting Award
Result:
受賞
Henry David Thoreau Prize
Organization:
PEN New England
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The Solace of Open Spaces
1985 NonfictionA collection of essays on rural life in Wyoming
NatureRural life
Heart Mountain
1988 NovelA novel set in Wyoming about a community invaded by a Japanese American internment camp
WarCommunity
Islands, the Universe, Home
1991 Creative nonfictionCreative nonfiction essays merging nature observations with personal voice
NatureMysticism
This Cold Heaven
2001 NonfictionSeven Seasons in Greenland
Polar regionsTravel
Bibliography
- To Touch the Water (1981)
- The Solace of Open Spaces (1985)
- Heart Mountain (1988)
- Drinking Dry Clouds: Stories from Wyoming (1991)
- Islands, the Universe, Home (1991)
- Arctic Heart: A Poem Cycle (1992)
- A Match to the Heart (1994)
- John Muir: Nature's Visionary (2000)
- This Cold Heaven: Seven Seasons in Greenland (2001)
- The Future of Ice: A Journey Into Cold (2004)
- In the Empire of Ice (2010)
- Facing the Wave (2013)
- Unsolaced (2021)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Merging intense, vivid, factual observations of nature with a wryly mystical personal voice
- Recurring Motifs
- NatureLandscapeTravelLoss
Health
-
Struck by lightning1991年以降数年間Incapacitated for several years, leading to the book A Match to the Heart
Legacy
Known as an American nature writer celebrated for works depicting landscapes of Wyoming and Greenland
Archives
- Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
Trivia
- Partnered with Neal Conan (2014 until his death)
- Struck by lightning in 1991, which inspired a book