David Gessner
David Gessner is the author of six books, including Soaring with Fidel (2008), Sick of Nature (2005), The Prophet of Dry Hill (2005), and Return of the Osprey (2002), which was hailed as a "classic of American Nature Writing" by the Boston Globe and
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David Gessner is the author of six books, including Soaring with Fidel (2008), Sick of Nature (2005), The Prophet of Dry Hill (2005), and Return of the Osprey (2002), which was hailed as a "classic of American Nature Writing" by the Boston Globe and was selected as one of their top ten nonfiction books of the year. Gessner is the recent winner of a Pushcart Prize and the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay. His essays have been included in The Best American Essays series and The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008. His work has also appeared in many magazines and journals including New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, Outside, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, and Orion. He has taught environmental writing at Harvard, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he edits the national literary journal, Ecotone.
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