About the Author
David Gessner is the author of six books of literary nonfiction,
including Return of the Osprey and the forthcoming Soaring
with Fidel (Beacon spring ’07). Return
of the Osprey was called a “classic
of American Nature Writing” by the Boston Globe, and that paper
also chose it as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2001.
Gessner’s
essays have appeared in many magazines and journals including The
Georgia Review, American Scholar, Orion, The Boston Sunday Globe,
The Harvard Review, and the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, for which
the essay “Benediction” was selected.
He has taught Environmental
Writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard, and is currently
a Professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North
Carolina Wilmington, where he also edits the literary journal
of place,
Ecotone.
He is currently at work on a novel of place about Cape Cod and several
nonfiction projects.
Listen to an excerpt from the essay "Bigger than Shakespeare" (6 MB)
Listen to an excerpt from the essay "The Apprentice" (6 MB)
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