Name Verlyn Klinkenborg | Role Author | |
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Education Princeton University (1982), Pomona College Awards American Book Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books The rural life, Several Short Sentence, Timothy - or - Notes of an Abject Re, The Last Fine Time, Making hay | ||
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Verlyn Klinkenborg (born 1952 in Meeker, Colorado) is an American non-fiction author and newspaper editor.
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- Early life
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Early life
Klinkenborg was raised on an Iowa farm belonging to his family. 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 Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Klinkenborg taught literature and creative writing at Fordham University while living in the Bronx in the early to mid-1980s, and later at St. Olaf College, Bennington College, Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, and Harvard University. In 1991 he received the Lila Wallace–Reader's Digest Writer's Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. He currently teaches creative writing at Yale University and lives on a small farm in upstate New York.
Work
Klinkenborg's books include More Scenes from the Rural Life (Princeton Architectural Press), Making Hay and The Last Fine Time.
His book Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile concerns the tortoise which the English eighteenth century parson-naturalist Gilbert White inherited from his aunt, as described in his 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. In the first half of 2006, Klinkenborg posted a farm and garden blog about The Rural Life, consisting of entries from the daily journal kept by Gilbert White in Selborne in 1784, and his own complementary daily entries.
From 1997 to 2013, he was a member of the editorial board of The New York Times.
Klinkenborg has published articles in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, National Geographic and Mother Jones magazines.
He has written a series of editorial opinions in The New York Times; these are generally literary meditations on rural farm life. On December 26, 2013, he announced in that column that it was to be the last he would be writing in that space.
He was the 2006-2007 visiting writer-in-residence at Pomona College, where he taught nonfiction writing. In 2007, he received a Guggenheim fellowship, which funded his book The Mermaids of Lapland, about William Cobbett.