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| David George Haskell |
Last summer in Sewanee, I had the privilege of having dinner with biologist and University of the South professor David George Haskell along with my creative nonfiction classmates at the fabulous Sewanee Inn. I'd met Dr. Haskell on a few other occasions when I was a student in John Jeremiah Sullivan's nonfiction workshop and while I was working on my master's thesis (Birds in the works of the Brontës and Dickens). While I'm certain he didn't remember me, Dr. Haskell certainly made a lasting impression. His nature writing both captivated and inspired me and continues to do so in my own writing.
His first book, The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature, became a Pulitzer Prize finalist and his second book, The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors, provides another example of Haskell's skill in literary nature writing.
