Chip Rawlins
{{Short description|American writer}}
Chip Rawlins (born 1949) is an American writer and the co-author of The Complete Walker IV with Colin Fletcher. He also publishes under the name C. L. Rawlins .{{cite web|url=http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/biblios/fictionalnat.txt|title=Naturalist characters in fiction
|work=ASLE - The Association for the Study of Literature & Environment|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522100633/http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/biblios/fictionalnat.txt|archive-date=22 May 2008}} Rawlins is a non-fiction writer, poet, outdoor guide, and instructor. Previous jobs include: firefighter, science editor, and field hydrologist.
Biography
Rawlins was born in 1949, in Laramie, Wyoming.{{cite news|last1=Marston|first1=Betsy|title=Dear Friends|url=http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=816|work=High Country News|date=20 February 1995}}{{cite encyclopedia|title=Rawlins, C. L|url=http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/C+L+Rawlins|encyclopedia=Wyoming Authors Wiki|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501215010/http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/C%2BL%2BRawlins|archive-date=1 May 2008|url-status=dead}} He went to Utah State University and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.{{cite web|title=About the Authors: Colin Fletcher and C. L. Rawlins|url=http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/fletcher/|website=Random House}} He lives in Laramie, where he has served as president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and on the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He has also lived in New Zealand .{{cite news|last1=Debevoise|first1=Nancy|title=Farewell to Chip Rawlins & Darrel Short|url=http://wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org/news/newsletter/docs/2001d/farewell.php|work=Frontline Newsletter|publisher=Wyoming Outdoor Council|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013010559/http://www.wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org/news/newsletter/docs/2001d/farewell.php|archivedate=13 October 2008}}
Books
- A Ceremony on Bare Ground (1985)
- Sky's Witness: A year in the Wind River Range (Henry Holt, 1993)
- Broken Country: Mountains and Memory (Henry Holt, 1996)
- In Gravity National Park (University of Nevada, 1998)
- The Complete Walker IV (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
Awards
- USFS National Primitive Skills Award
- 1999 Poetry Prize from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association
- Stegner Fellowship{{cite web|title=Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows|url=http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows|website=Creative Writing Program|publisher=Stanford University|access-date=2016-06-14|archive-date=2018-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180311043037/http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows|url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- [http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/C+L+Rawlins Wyoming Authors Wiki Entry]
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