Franklin Burroughs is an American author of nonfiction.

Biography

Burroughs holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and a Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. He is the Harrison King McCann Research Professor of the English Language Emeritus at

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. He retired from teaching in 2002. He writes primarily about the people and natural environments in and around

Conway, South Carolina Conway is a city in and the county seat of Horry County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 24,849 at the 2020 census, up from 17,103 in the 2010 census, making it the 18th-most populous city in the state. The city is part of ...

where he was raised, and

Bowdoinham, Maine Bowdoinham is a town in Sagadahoc County, Maine, United States. Bowdoinham was included in the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area. The population was 3,047 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Portland– ...

, where he has lived his adult life.

Awards

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fellowship *"Compression Wood" was anthologized in ''

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'' in 1999, edited by

Edward Hoagland 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 i ...

and Robert Atwan. *''Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay'' received the 2009

John Burroughs Medal The John Burroughs Medal, named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural hist ...

for natural history writing.

Books

* ''Horry and the Waccamaw'' (1992). W. W. Norton & Company. . * ''The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country'' (1998).

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. *''Billy Watson's Croker Sack'' (1991).

. *''Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay'' (2006). Tilbury House Publishers. .

References

http://www.sewanee.edu/ywc/SYWCSGuestBurroughs.htm
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/003289.shtml
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