Edward Hoagland - Bibliography

Bibliography

Books

  • Cat Man, Houghton Mifflin, 1956; NAL, 1958; Ballantine, 1973; Arbor House, 1984; Lyons Press, 2003
  • The Circle Home, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1960; Avon, 1977; Lyons Press, 2003
  • The Peacock’s Tail, McGraw-Hill, 1965
  • Notes from the Century Before: A Journal from British Columbia, Random House, 1969; Ballantine, 1972; North Point Press, 1982; Sierra Club Books, 1995; Modern Library, 2002
  • The Courage of Turtles, Random House, 1971; Warner, 1974; North Point Press, 1985; Lyons & Burford, 1993
  • Walking the Dead Diamond River, Random House, 1973; Warner, 1974; North Point Press, 1985; Lyons & Burford, 1993
  • The Moose on the Wall, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974
  • Red Wolves and Black Bears, Random House, 1976; Penguin, 1983; Lyons & Burford, 1995
  • African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan, Random House, 1979; Penguin, 1981; Lyons & Burford, 1995
  • The Edward Hoagland Reader, Random House, 1979; Vintage, 1981
  • The Tugman’s Passage, Random House, 1982; Penguin, 1983; Lyons & Burford, 1995
  • City Tales, Capra Press, 1986
  • Seven Rivers West, Simon & Schuster, 1986; Penguin, 1987; Lyons Press, 2003
  • Heart’s Desire, Simon & Schuster, 1988; Collins Harville, 1990; Touchstone, 1991
  • The Final Fate of the Alligators, Capra Press, 1992
  • Balancing Acts, Simon & Schuster, 1992, Touchstone, 1993; Lyons Press, 1999
  • Tigers & Ice, Lyons Press, 1999
  • Compass Points, Pantheon, 2001; Vintage, 2002
  • Hoagland on Nature, Lyons Press, 2003
  • Early in the Season, Douglas & McIntyre, 2008
  • Sex and the River Styx, Chelsea Green, 2011
  • Alaskan Travels, Arcade Publishing, 2012

Short stories

  • “Cowboys,” The Noble Savage, No. 1, February 1960
  • “The Last Irish Fighter,” Esquire, August 1960
  • “The Witness,” The Paris Review, Summer-Fall 1967
  • “The Colonel’s Power,” New American Review, No. 2, January 1968
  • “Kwan’s Coney Island,” New American Review, No. 5, January 1969
  • “A Fable of Mammas,” Transatlantic Review, No. 32, Summer 1969
  • “The Final Fate of the Alligators,” The New Yorker, October 18, 1969
  • “Seven Rivers West,” Esquire, July 1986
  • “The Mind’s Eye,” The Nature of Nature, (ed. Wm. Shore), Harcourt, 1994
  • “The Devil’s Tub,” Yale Review, Autumn, 2005
  • "Triage Along the Nile," Conjunctions, Fall 2008
  • "In Africa," New Letters, vol. 74, Fall 2008

Essays

  • “The Big Cats,” Esquire, April 1961
  • “The Draft Card Gesture,” Commentary, February 1968
  • “Notes from the Century Before,” The Paris Review, Winter 1968
  • “On Not Being a Jew,” Commentary, April 1968
  • “The Threshold and the Jolt of Pain,” The Village Voice, October 17, 1968
  • “The Courage of Turtles,” The Village Voice, December 12, 1968
  • “The Elephant Trainer and the Man on Stilts,” The Village Voice, April 17, 1969
  • “Why this Extra Violence,” The Village Voice, May 8, 1969
  • “Knights and Squires: For Love of the Tugs,” The Village Voice, May 29, 1969
  • “The Problem of the Golden Rule,” Commentary, August 1969
  • “Blitzes and Holding Actions,” The Village Voice, October 16, 1969
  • “Books, Movies, the News,” Book World, November 9, 1969
  • “Home is Two Places,” Commentary, February 1970
  • “The Circus in 1970,” The Village Voice, April 9, 1970
  • “The Moose on the Wall,” New American Review, No. 9, April 1970
  • “Americana by the Acre,” Harper’s, October 1970
  • “Meatcutters Are a Funny Bunch,” The Village Voice, December 17, 1970
  • “The Portland Freight Run,” The Atlantic, February 1971
  • “The War in the Woods,” Harper’s, February 1971
  • “Splendid, with Trumpets,” The Village Voice, April 8, 1971
  • “Two Clowns,” Life, April 25, 1971
  • “The Assassination Impulse,” The Village Voice, May 27, 1971
  • “Of Cows and Cambodia,” The Atlantic, July 1971
  • “The Soul of the Tiger,” Esquire, July 1971
  • “Hailing the Elusory Mountain Lion,” The New Yorker, August 7, 1971
  • “Jane Street’s Samurai,” The Village Voice, November 25, 1971
  • “Nobody Writes Stories about Unicorns,” The Village Voice, December 16, 1971
  • “Passions and Tensions,” The Village Voice, February 2, 1972
  • “On the Question of Dogs,” The Village Voice, March 30, 1972
  • “City Rat,” Audience, March–April 1972
  • “Women Aflame,” The Village Voice, April 27, 1972
  • “Marriage, Fame, Power, Success,” The Village Voice, May 18, 1972
  • “In the Toils of the Law,” The Atlantic, June 1972
  • “Looking for Wilderness,” The Atlantic, August 1972
  • “Thoughts on Returning to the Mountain…” The Village Voice, November, 1972
  • “Heart’s Desire,” Audience, November–December 1972
  • “Howling Back at the Wolves,” Saturday Review, December 1972
  • “Wall Maps and Woodpeckers,” The Village Voice, January 25, 1973
  • “Fred King on the Allagash,” Audience, January–February 1973
  • “Mountain Towers,” The Village Voice, February 15, 1973
  • “At Pinkham Notch,” The Village Voice, March 15, 1973
  • “Wildlands in Vermont,” The Village Voice, March 22, 1973
  • “In a Lair with a Bear,” Sports Illustrated, March 26, 1973
  • “Tricks, Innocence, Pathos, Perfection,” The Village Voice, May 10, 1973
  • “The Young Must Do the Healing,” New York Times Magazine, June 10, 1973
  • “Other Lives,” Harper’s, July 1973
  • “A Run of Bad Luck,” Newsweek, July 30, 1973
  • “Writing Wild,” New York Times Book Review, September 23, 1973
  • “That Gorgeous Great Novelist,” The Village Voice, November 15, 1973
  • “But Where Is Home,” New York Times Book Review, December 23, 1973
  • “A Mountain with a Wolf on It,” Sports Illustrated, January 14, 1974
  • “Where Have All the Heroes Gone,” New York Times Magazine, March 10, 1974
  • “Where the Action Is,” New York Times Book Review, October 13, 1974
  • “Nine Home Truths about Writing,” The Village Voice, January 20, 1975
  • “The Tug of Life at the End of the Leash,” Harper’s, February 1975
  • “Big Frog, Very Small Pond,” Sports Illustrated, March 3, 1975
  • “The Survival of the Newt,” New York Times Magazine, July 27, 1975
  • “Apocalypse Enough,” Not Man Apart, July 1975
  • “A Paradox among Us,” Harper’s, January 1976
  • “Southern Mansions,” Travel & Leisure, February 1976
  • “What I Think, What I Am,” New York Times Book Review, June 27, 1976
  • “Cairo Observed,” Harper’s, June 1976
  • “At Large in East Africa,” Harper’s, August 1976
  • “The Fragile Writer,” New York Times Book Review, December 12, 1976
  • “The Ridge-Slope Fox and the Knife-Thrower,” Harper’s, January 1977
  • “Do Writers Stay Home,” New York Times Book Review, May 22, 1977
  • “Without American Express,” New York Times Book Review, June 4, 1978
  • “Into Eritrea: Africa’s Red Sea War,” Harper’s, July 1978
  • “Unsilent Spring,” The Nation, May 26, 1979
  • “Gabriel, Who Wanted to Know,” The New England Review, Summer 1979
  • “Tugs,” Harper’s, December 1979
  • “Johnny Appleseed,” American Heritage, December–January 1979
  • “Being Between Books,” New York Times Book Review, October 28, 1979
  • “December Song,” The Nation, December 6, 1980
  • “America Was Promises (Still),” The Nation, February 21, 1981
  • “Making of a Writer,” New York Times Book Review, October 4, 1981
  • “Gods, Masks, and Horses,” Vanity Fair, July 1983
  • “Anchorage,” Vanity Fair, October 1983
  • “Up the Black to Chalkyitsik,” House and Garden, June 1984
  • “Hail the Anhinga,” The Nation, June 9, 1984
  • “Memories of Circuses Past,” The Nation, March 9, 1985
  • “In Okefenokee,” National Geographic Traveler, Spring 1985
  • “Nectar Feeding,” The Nation, July 20, 1985
  • “In Praise of John Muir,” Antaeus, Autumn 1986
  • “Three Trains Across Canada,” Travel & Leisure, March 1987
  • “Up with Spring,” The Nation, June 6, 1987
  • “Treasured Places,” Life, July 1987
  • “Summer Skunks,” The Nation, August 29, 1987
  • “Christmases Past,” The Nation, December 26, 1987
  • “Heaven and Nature,” Harper’s, March 1988
  • “Arabia Felix,” Interview magazine, May 1988
  • “The Indispensable Thoreau,” American Heritage, July 1988
  • “Learning to Eat Soup,” Antaeus, Autumn 1988
  • “The Hunger in Manhattan Life,” Harper’s, June 1989
  • “Jubilant Spring,” The Nation, June 19, 1989
  • “A World Worth Saving,” Life, October 1989
  • “O Wyoming,” Outside, October 1989
  • “Tolstoyan Tide,” The Nation, May 14, 1990
  • “Shh, Our Writers Are Sleeping,” Esquire, July 1990
  • “On Getting One’s Footing” (reprinted from “Anxious Dreams,” Manchester Guardian, * January 20), Harper’s, August 1990
  • “Roadless Regions,” Literary Outtakes, September 1990
  • “Passing Views,” Harper’s, January 1991
  • “Good Trips, Bad Trips,” Outside, April 1991
  • “The Best Idea,” Life, May 1991
  • “Spring Medley,” The Nation, June 10, 1991
  • “Holy Fools,” The Nation, September 16, 1991
  • “Everybody Comes to Belize,” Outside, February 1992
  • “Meat for the Old Man,” Outside, May 1992
  • “Christmas Observed,” New York Times Magazine, December 20, 1992
  • “To the Point,” Harper’s, March 1993
  • “Skin and Bones,” The Nation, May 3, 1993
  • “The Unknown Thoreau,” The Nation, June 7, 1993
  • “Nature’s Seesaw,” Vermont, May 1994 (also in Land’s End Catalogue, September 1993)
  • “All This Good World,” Manoa, June 1994
  • “Strange Perfume,” Esquire, June 1994
  • “The View from 61,” New York Times Magazine, November 27, 1994
  • “Brightness Visible,” Harper’s, January 1995
  • “Surge Time at the Bottom of the Earth,” Outside, March 1995
  • “Scenes from a Forty-Year War,” The Nation, April 10, 1995
  • “Like a Saul Bellow Character,” Salmagundi, Spring 1995
  • “Stepping Back,” New York Times Magazine, November 12, 1995
  • “Books that Need Authors,” The Nation, November 13, 1995
  • “The Daring Art of Rockwell Kent,” Civilization, January 1996
  • “Dying Argots,” Harper’s, January 1996
  • “Running Mates,” Hungry Mind Review, November 1996 (also Spring 1999)
  • “Generational Pioneer,” New York Times Magazine, December 8, 1996
  • “A Last Look Around,” Civilization, February 1997
  • “The Peaceable Kingdom,” Preservation, March 1997 (also in Vermont, June 1999)
  • “Wild Things,” Granta, Spring 1997
  • “Samos, Reflections on Love, and Love Lost, On a Greek Island,” Islands, June 1997
  • “Henry James and Porky Pig,” The Nation, June 30, 1997
  • “The Sage of Selborne,” The Yale Review, July 1997
  • “Spring Comes to the Kingdom,” Vermont Woodlands, Spring 1998
  • “I Can See,” Granta, Summer 1998
  • “India,” River City, Summer 1998
  • “Vermont Journal,” American Scholar, Summer 1998
  • “Vermont: Suite of Seasons,” National Geographic, September 1998
  • “Lost Between Burma and Tibet,” Outside, October 1998
  • Craft and Obsession: An Interview with Edward Hoagland," The Hungry Mind Review, Spring 1999
  • “On the Lure of Water,” Sierra, May 1999
  • “Writers Afoot,” American Scholar, Summer 1999
  • “Earth’s Eye,” Northern Woodlands, Autumn 1999
  • “That Sense of Falling,” Preservation, October 1999
  • “Writers Afoot,” Harper’s, October 1999
  • “Calliope Times,” The New Yorker, May 22, 2000
  • “Natural Excursions,” Orion, Summer 2000
  • “Fire,” American Scholar, Autumn 2000
  • “Natural Light,” Harper’s, October 2000
  • “Vermont’s Civil Union,” Washington Post, late October 2000
  • “Secrets of the Stutter,” U.S. News & World Report, April 2, 2001
  • “Smirko, Smirko, Smirko!” Yankee, June 2001
  • “Two Kinds of People,” Worth, November 2001
  • “Circus Music,” Harper’s, February 2002
  • “Ansel Adams at 100,” Aperture, Spring 2002
  • “John Muir’s Alaskan Rhapsody,” American Scholar, Spring 2002
  • “Blind Faith,” Food and Wine, April 2002
  • “1776 and All That,” The Nation, July 22, 2002
  • “Diaries,” The Paris Review, Summer 2002
  • “The Circus of Dr. Lao,” Post Road, Fall 2002
  • “Not Even the Giant Squid,” Harper’s, November 2002
  • “Sex and the River Styx,” Harper’s, January 2003
  • “The American Dissident,” Harper’s, August 2003
  • “Immersion Teaching,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2004
  • “Small Silences,” Harper’s, July 2004
  • “Journals,” American Scholar, Autumn 2004
  • “The Glue Is Gone,” American Scholar, Winter 2005
  • “Miles from Nowhere,” American Scholar, Summer 2006
  • “Endgame: Meditations on a Diminishing World,” Harper's, June 2007
  • "Children Are Diamonds," Portland, Fall 2007
  • "The Broken Balance," The American Scholar, Spring 2008
  • "A Country for Old Men," The American Scholar, Winter 2009
  • "Curtain Calls," Harper's, March 2009
  • "China's Mystic Waters," National Geographic, March 2009
  • "Journals '04, '05," The Seattle Review, Fall 2009
  • "Barley and Yaks," Orion, November 2009
  • "Last Call – Old Age and the End of Nature," Harper's, May 2010
  • "Spaced Out in the City," American Scholar, Summer 2010
  • "When I Was Blind," Portland Magazine, Summer 2011

Other Essays

  • Commencing from March 12, 1979, fifty-plus unsigned editorials in The New York Times: “The Price of Fur,” “In the Spring,” “Hang-ups,” “Mountain House,” etc., to 1989
  • Pequod, Winter 1986
  • New England Monthly, May 1987
  • Yankee Homes, September 1989
  • Manchester Guardian, January 20, 1990; August 12, 1990; March 31, 1991
  • Anchorage Daily News, June 28, 1992
  • Vermont, June 1994
  • The New York Times, January 11, 1986; June 15, 1991; October 5, 1993; May 13, 1995
  • Rolling Stone, May 28, 1998
  • Manoa, June 1999
  • Portland Magazine (Oregon), Summer 1996; Winter 1996; Winter 1997; Spring 2002

Book Reviews

  • In The New York Times Book Review, May 9, 1971; June 13, 1971; February 6, 1972; October 7, 1973; October 21, 1973; December 2, 1973; April 14, 1974; May 19, 1974; “City Walking,” June 1, 1975; June 22, 1975; November 9, 1975; December 7, 1975; April 11, 1976; April 18, 1976; May 9, 1976; August 15, 1976; September 5, 1976; November 14, 1976; January 9, 1977; June 19, 1977; August 14, 1977; September 11, 1977; November 27, 1977; December 11, 1977; November 19, 1978; November 26, 1978; January 21, 1979; February 4, 1979; June 24, 1979; July 22, 1979; March 23, 1980; March 30, 1980; June 8, 1980; August 17, 1980; March 15, 1981; November 8, 1981; June 6, 1982; August 29, 1982; October 17, 1982; November 21, 1982; June 12, 1983; January 22, 1984; October, 1984; February 16, 1986; July 19, 1987; September 11, 1988; January 8, 1989; May 7, 1989; March 18, 1990; November 25, 1990; July 2, 2000
  • In The Boston Herald, December 20, 1970
  • In The Village Voice, December 30, 1971; October 24, 1974; October 1982
  • In The Chicago Daily News, December 1, 1974
  • In Life, October 14, 1971; April 21, 1972; October 27, 1972
  • In Harper’s Book Letter, May 12, 1975
  • In Harper’s, July 1977; May 1985; January 1986; February 1989
  • In Saturday Review, April 28, 1979, December 1980
  • In New York magazine, May 28, 1979
  • In The New Republic, October 20, 1979; March 1, 1980
  • In Washington Post Book World, April 12, 1970; June 6, 1970; October 30, 1972; June 15, 1980; October 11, 1981; August 2, 1987
  • In Inside Sports, November 1980
  • In Science Digest, October 1981
  • In Chicago Tribune, November 6, 1988
  • In Wigwag, October–November–December 1989
  • In USA Today, October 23, 1992; November 13, 1992; January 21, 1994
  • In Boston Globe, November 19, 1995; April 19, 1997
  • In Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1996
  • In Civilization, November 1994; March 1995; July 1995; October 1997
  • In Onearth, October 2004
  • "Here He Is, On the Prowl," in "William James in His Time and Ours," Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume 20, Number 2

Other Work

  • General editor of the Penguin Nature Library; later called the Penguin Nature Classics series: thirty volumes in all, 1985 on: Bartram, Beston, Austin, Bates, Catlin, Audubon, Thoreau, Muir, Powell, Warner, White, Seton, Lewis and Clark, Prishvin, King, etc., introduced by Stegner, Updike, Theroux, Dickey, Barth, Turner, Abbey, McKibben, Shoumatoff, Ehrlich, Nelson, Berry, Matthiessen, et al.

Introductions written for:

  • The Circus of Dr. Lao, by Charles G. Finney, Vintage, 1983
  • The Mountains of California, by John Muir, Penguin, 1985
  • The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau, Penguin, 1988
  • Vanishing Arctic, by T. M. Watkins, Aperture Books, 1988
  • The Pushcart Prize XVI, Best of the Small Presses, edited by Bill Henderson, 1991
  • Walden, by Henry David Thoreau, Vintage, 1991
  • Steep Trails, by John Muir, Sierra Club Books, 1994
  • Land of Rivers, by Peter Mancall, Cornell University Press, 1996
  • N by E, by Rockwell Kent, Wesleyan University Press, 1996
  • The Natural History of Selborne, by Gilbert White, Penguin, 1997
  • The Best American Essays 1999, edited by Edward Hoagland, Houghton Mifflin, 1999
  • Elevating Ourselves, by Henry David Thoreau, Houghton Mifflin, 1999
  • Our Like Will Not Be There Again, by Lawrence Hillman, Ruminator Books, 2001
  • The Shameless Diary of an Explorer, by Robert Dunn, Modern Library, 2001
  • Shooting Blind, by Visually Impaired Collective, Aperture Books, 2002
  • Step Right This Way, by Edward J. Kelty, Barnes & Noble Books, 2002
  • Travels in Alaska, by John Muir, Modern Library, 2002
  • Interview, Agni 62, Fall 2005

Contributor to large-format books:

  • Our World’s Heritage, National Geographic Society, 1987
  • Paths Less Traveled, Atheneum, 1988
  • Favorite Places, a Travel & Leisure Book, 1989
  • Heart of a Nation, National Geographic Society, 2000

Other:

  • In numerous anthologies.
  • Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, 1954; Longview Foundation Award, 1961; Prix de Rome, 1964; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965; New York State Arts Council grant, 1972; Brandeis University Citation in Literature, 1972; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975; Harold Vursell Award of American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1981; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1982; Lannan Foundation Award, 1993.
  • Nominated for National Book Award, 1974; National Book Critics Circle Award, 1980; American Book Award, 1982; New York Public Library Literary Lion, 1988 and 1996; National Magazine Award, 1989; Boston Public Library Literary Light, 1995. Elected to American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1982.
  • Has juried competitions for the J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, New York State Arts Council
  • Virginia Commission for the Arts, Oregon State Arts Council, Breadloaf Foundation, American Academy of Arts and Letters, etc.
  • John Burroughs Medal, 2012

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