Richard Manning
{{Short description|Environmental author (b. 1951)}}
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Richard "Dick" Manning is an American environmental author and journalist who writes about music, neuroscience, and agriculture.
Career
Manning is the author of 11 books{{cite web |url=https://blog.pmpress.org/authors-artists-comrades/richard-manning/ |title=Richard Manning |website=www.pmpress.org. |access-date=2024-06-15}} and has worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for more than 40 years,[http://www.austincollege.edu/NewsDetail.asp?NewsID=345&ItemID=3482 Austin College. Sherman, Texas] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914221440/http://www.austincollege.edu/NewsDetail.asp?NewsID=345&ItemID=3482 |date=2006-09-14}} including four years at the Missoulian.{{cite web|title=Richard Manning|url=http://www.penguin.com/author/richard-manning/243205|website=Penguin Random House|accessdate=2015-08-20}} In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from Stanford University.{{cite web|url=http://knight.stanford.edu/fellows/1995/ |title=Meet the Fellows | JSK | Knight Fellowships Class of 1995 |publisher=knight.stanford.edu|accessdate=2015-08-20}} He is a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992.[http://www.margolis.com/award/html/1992_-_richard_manning.html 1992 – Richard Manning] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626081123/http://www.margolis.com/award/html/1992_-_richard_manning.html|date=2007-06-26}}
He writes frequently about the environment, neuroscience and music. He was a senior research associate at the National Native Children's Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he wrote about trauma and poverty. In addition to his eleven books, his articles have been published in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon[http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0201-05.htm Mountains, Elk, and Sprawl] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070713011717/http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0201-05.htm|date=2007-07-13}} and The Bloomsbury Review.
Personal life
He lives with his wife, Tracy Stone-Manning, in Montana and Washington, D.C.
Books
- Last Stand (1991) {{ISBN|978-0-87905-389-5}}
- A Good House (1994) {{ISBN|978-0-14-023407-7}}
- Grassland (1997) {{ISBN|978-0-14-023388-9}}
- One Round River (1998) {{ISBN|978-0-8050-4792-9}}
- Food's Frontier (2001){{cite book|title=Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution|author=Manning, R.|date=2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520232631|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAAf2OqPYDUC|accessdate=2014-10-12}} {{ISBN|978-0-520-23263-1}}
- Inside Passage (2001){{cite book|title=Inside Passage: A Journey Beyond Borders|author=Manning, R.|date=2000|publisher=Island Press|isbn=9781597268813|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D7OULK95PfcC|accessdate=2014-10-12}} {{ISBN|978-1-55963-655-1}}
- Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (2004) {{ISBN|978-0-86547-622-6}}
- Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape (2009) {{ISBN|978-0-520-25658-3}}
- It Runs in the Family (2013) {{ISBN|978-0-312-62030-1}}
- Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization (2014) {{ISBN|978-0-312-62030-1}}
- If It Sounds Good, It is Good (2020) {{ISBN|978-1-629-63792-1}}{{cite web |url=https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1084 |title=If It Sounds Good, It Is Good: Seeking Subversion, Transcendence, and Solace in America's Music |website=www.pmpress.org |access-date=2024-06-15}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.richardmanning.net/ Official website]
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Category:American non-fiction environmental writers
Category:Writers from Missoula, Montana
Category:American agricultural writers