Hoagland, Edward

Hoagland, Edward

▪ American writer
in full  Edward Morley Hoagland 
born Dec. 21, 1932, New York, N.Y., U.S.

      American novelist, travel writer, and essayist, noted especially for his writings about nature and wildlife.

      Hoagland sold his first novel, Cat Man (1956), shortly before graduating from Harvard University (A.B., 1954). After serving in the U.S. Army (1955–57), he wrote The Circle Home (1960), set in the seedy world of prizefighting, and The Peacock's Tail (1965). Both novels are noted for their sympathetic portrayals of impoverished, struggling people. His fourth novel, Seven Rivers West (1986), tells of the cultural collision between white railroad builders and Indians in western Canada during the 1880s. He also published the short-story collections City Tales (1986) and The Final Fate of the Alligators (1992).

      Hoagland's travel books include Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia (1969) and African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan (1979). Perhaps his best work is his nature essays and editorials, which combine a lifelong fondness for wilderness with his characteristic close observation. His essays are collected in The Courage of Turtles (1971), Walking the Dead Diamond River (1973), The Moose on the Wall: Field Notes from the Vermont Wilderness (1974), Red Wolves and Black Bears (1976), The Edward Hoagland Reader (1979), Balancing Acts (1992), Tigers & Ice (1999), and Hoagland on Nature (2003). Hoagland also wrote a memoir, Compass Points: How I Lived (2001).

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