by Jack London, 1962.Įdited, supplied introduction and notes to On a Piece of Chalk. 1971.Īll the Strange Hours : The Excavation of a Life. The Night Country : Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man. Man, Time and Prophecy (an address delivered in April, l966)īrown Wasps: A Collection of Three Essays in Autobiography. 1958.įrancis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma. Contributor, 1939.ĭarwin's Century : Evolution and the Men That Discovered It.

Christine Lesiak Reflections of a Bonehunter: Transcripts of Interviews 1994 (includes Ray Bradbury), materials for the ETV documentary on Eiseley, is also a useful resource. Bertram Schultz-Eiseley correspondence and local and library collections of physical artifacts associated with Eiseley, books in several languages, manuscript materials, and letters. That listing includes Eiseley association books, mostly given to him by his parents as a child the complete Christianson-Eiseley collection of materials that Gale Christianson used in writing The Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley the Nebraska Academy of Science Eiseley Donation, including the C. Heritage Room Eiseley collections complete listing is here. His 1960 Firmament of Time was honored as the best popular science book that year. In 1959, Darwin's Century was rated the year's best non-fiction book. In 1936, in hard times, Wimberly got Eiseley a job with the Nebraska Federal Writers' Project (Eiseley page).Īfter Eiseley left Nebraska, his career as an anthropologist took him from the University of Kansas to Oberlin College, then to the University of Pennsylvania where he was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science.Įiseley was on the `Honor Roll' in Best Short Stories, 1936, for the story `Mop to K.C.' The Immense Journey, based on his 1930s field work in Nebraska, was the book that made him famous and gained him a wide audience. He was a member of the 1932 University of Nebraska expedition that discovered and excavated many of the mammalian fossils familiar to Nebraskans visiting the State Museum in Morrill Hall in Lincoln. He was a student of Lowry Wimberly, in the English Department at the University of Nebraska, but he also studied geology and paleontology and pursued a degree in anthropology. Auden, the social critic Lewis Mumford, and the science fiction writer Ray Bradbury. His literary admirers and correspondents included the poet W.H.

Eiseley is one of the most widely read and highly regarded nature writers of the twentieth century.

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