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Richard "Dick" Manning (born 1951) is an American environmental author and journalist who writes about music, neuroscience, and agriculture.


Career

Manning is the author of 11 books and has worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for more than 40 years, including four years at the ''
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''. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from
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. He is a three-time winner of the ''
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'' C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and also won the
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Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992. He writes frequently about the environment, neuroscience and music. He was a senior research associate at the National Native Children's Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he wrote about trauma and poverty. In addition to his eleven books, his articles have been published in ''
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'', ''
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''Mountains, Elk, and Sprawl
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The Bloomsbury Review ''The Bloomsbury Review'' (''TBR'') was a nationally distributed literary magazine founded by Thomas Auer (1953–2003) in Denver, Colorado in 1980. It focused on small, regional, university, and international presses, as well as "smaller" titles ...
''.


Personal life

He lives with his wife,
Tracy Stone-Manning Tracy Stone-Manning (born 1965) is an American environmental policy advisor who served as the director of the Bureau of Land Management in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025. Stone-Manning is the President of The Wilderness Society. ...
, in Montana and Washington, D.C.


Books

*''Last Stand'' (1991) *''A Good House'' (1994) *''Grassland'' (1997) *''One Round River'' (1998) *''Food's Frontier'' (2001) *''Inside Passage'' (2001) *''Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization'' (2004) *''Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape'' (2009) *''It Runs in the Family'' (2013) *''Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization'' (2014) *''If It Sounds Good, It is Good'' (2020)


References


External links


Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manning, Richard Living people American non-fiction environmental writers Writers from Missoula, Montana American agricultural writers American male non-fiction writers 1951 births