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John Hildebrand
Eau Claire, WI Born: 1949 Link to Author's Website Listen to Larry Meiller's interview with Hildebrand on WPR |
Biography:
Writer, educator and naturalist, Hildebrand has lived in Wisconsin since 1977 and is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire. His essays and books, including Mapping the Farm, focus on how people relate to the natural world.
John Hildebrand is the author of three nonfiction books, the most recent of which is A Northern Front (2005), a collection of essays that previously appeared in such magazines as Harper's, Audubon, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Manoa, and The Missouri Review. He also wrote Mapping the Farm: The Chronicles of a Family (1995) and Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon (1998). His work has been anthologized in Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction (2005), Best American Sports Writing 1999, American Nature Writing 1997, The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska (1994), and Nature's New Voices (1992). His work has been translated into German and Italian.
Hildebrand received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan in 1971 and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska in 1974. In 1977 he joined the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he is a professor specializing in nonfiction writing and literature, the short story, and American literature. He received the Maxwell Schoenfeld Distinguished Professorship and the Excellence in Scholarship Award from UWEC. He has also been awarded a Bush Artist Fellowship, a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, the BANTA Award from the Wisconsin Literary Association, and a Friends of American Writers Literary Award.
(From http://people.uwec.edu/hildebjs/biography.htm)
Works by John Hildebrand:
Books
Anthologies
Short Stories
Book Reviews
Writer, educator and naturalist, Hildebrand has lived in Wisconsin since 1977 and is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire. His essays and books, including Mapping the Farm, focus on how people relate to the natural world.
John Hildebrand is the author of three nonfiction books, the most recent of which is A Northern Front (2005), a collection of essays that previously appeared in such magazines as Harper's, Audubon, Outside, Sports Illustrated, Manoa, and The Missouri Review. He also wrote Mapping the Farm: The Chronicles of a Family (1995) and Reading the River: A Voyage Down the Yukon (1998). His work has been anthologized in Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction (2005), Best American Sports Writing 1999, American Nature Writing 1997, The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska (1994), and Nature's New Voices (1992). His work has been translated into German and Italian.
Hildebrand received a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Michigan in 1971 and M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska in 1974. In 1977 he joined the English Department at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he is a professor specializing in nonfiction writing and literature, the short story, and American literature. He received the Maxwell Schoenfeld Distinguished Professorship and the Excellence in Scholarship Award from UWEC. He has also been awarded a Bush Artist Fellowship, a Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, the BANTA Award from the Wisconsin Literary Association, and a Friends of American Writers Literary Award.
(From http://people.uwec.edu/hildebjs/biography.htm)
Works by John Hildebrand:
Books
- A Northern Front: New and Selected Essays. Borealis Books, 2005
- Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995
- Reading the River: A Voyage down the Yukon. Houghton Mifflin, 1988
- "A Northern Front." Harper's, November 2003. pp. 67-76.
- "The Appraisal." Harper's. November. 2001. pp. 56-63.
- "Other People's Stories." Fourth Genre. Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring 20001. p. 174-176.
- "Lost." Audubon. December 2000. pp. 40-46.
- "Winter Wild Land." Audubon. January/Feb. 2000. pp. 88-95.
- "Coming Home." Harper's. October 1998. pp. 72-80.
- "St. Bridget's Church." Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Vol. 9, No. 1 , 1997. p.108.
- "Beyond Whales." Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1993. pp. 96-102.
- "The Decline of Nature Writing." Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Vol. 4,No. 2, 1992. pp. 86-87.
- "Harvest Republic." Outside. September 1991. pp. 67-68.
- "A Sense of Home." Harrowsmith Country Life. No. 31, January 1991. pp. 16-17.
- "The Deer in the Tree." Harrowsmith Country Life. No. 29. Oct. 1990. pp. 12-20.
- "A Traveller's Tale." Outside. April 1989.
Anthologies
- "Touching Bottom," Barnstorm: Contemporary Wisconsin Fiction. University of Wisconsin Press. 2005.
- "Appraisal," Black Earth and Ivory Tower: Working the Middle Ground. University of South Carolina Press. 2005.
- "Coming Home," Best American Sports Writing 1999. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
- "Along the Delta," The River Reader. The Lyons Press, 1998.
- "Fences," American Nature Writing 1997. Sierra Club Books, 1997
- "Beyond Whales," The Great Land: Reflections on Alaska. University of Arizona, 1994.
- "Wading the Two-Hearted." Nature's New Voices. Folcrum Press, 1992.
- "Kaltag." The Truth about the Territories. Owl Creek Press. 1988.
- "Fables." Alaska: Reflections on land and Spirit. University of Arizona Press, 1988.
Short Stories
- "Touching Bottom." The Missouri Review. Vol. XII, No. 1. 1989.
Book Reviews
- "Bitter Harvest." review of Victor David Hanson's Fields without Dreams. New York Times Book Review. June 16, 1996.
- "Lone Star Landscapes." review of Stephan Harrington's A Natural State. The Washington Post. September 6, 1988.
