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A Short Biography of Edward Abbey

Author Name:

Edward Abbey

Born As:

Edward Paul Abbey

Other Names:

Born:

29 Jan 1927

Died:

14 Mar 1989




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Atheist, naturalist, writer and essayist                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

Jonathan Troy  - 1954
The Brave Cowboy  -1956
Fire on the Mountain  - 1962
Black Sun  - 1971
The Monkey Wrench Gang  - 1975
Good News  - 1980
The Fool's Progress  - 1988
Hayduke Lives  - 1989
Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey  - 1994

Non-fiction:

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness  - 1968
Appalachian Wilderness  - 1970
Slickrock  - 1971
Cactus Country  - 1973
The Journey Home  - 1977
The Hidden Canyon  - 1977
Abbey's Road  - 1979
Desert Images  - 1979
Down the River  - with Henry Thoreau & Other Friends  - 1982
In Praise of Mountain Lions  - 1984)
Beyond the Wall  - 1984
One Life at a Time, Please  - 1988
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal  - 1989
Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989  - 1994

Letters:

Cactus Chronicles published by Orion Magazine, Jul-Aug 2006 
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast  - 2006

Anthologies:

Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader  - 1984
The Best of Edward Abbey  - 1984
The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader  - 1995.                          
Mother Mildred Postlewait
Father Paul Revere Abbey
First Spouse Jean Schmechal
Second Spouse  Rita Deanin, two chidlren
Third Spouse  Judy Pepper, one daughter, Susannah Mildred Abbey
Fourth Spouse Renee Downing
Fourth Spouse  Clark Cartwright, two children, Rebecca Claire Abbey and Benjamin C. Abbey