THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE OF MOAB LOCAL AUTHORS ABOUND WITHIN INSPIRATIONAL RED ROCK COUNTRY
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Written by Sharon Sullivan
OAB’S RED ROCK SCENERY INSPIRES NOT ONLY THE OUTDOOR RECREATION FOR WHICH IT’S FAMOUS; ADDITIONALLY, IT’S FERTILE GROUND FOR AN ARRAY OF ARTISTS, INCLUDING PUBLISHED AUTHORS — SOME WELL-KNOWN, OTHERS LESS SO. GET ACQUAINTED WITH SOME OF THE WRITERS CONTRIBUTING TO THE AREA’S LITERARY LANDSCAPE.
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MOAB AREA REAL ESTATE MAGAZINE September–October 2020
spring semester ended she’s been devoting her time to reading lots of books as a judge for the nonfiction category of the National Book Awards, which are announced in mid-November. Visit coyoteclan.com to learn more about Terry Tempest Williams.
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ne of the area’s best-known authors is Terry Tempest Williams. In her most recent book, Erosion: Essays of Undoing, the renowned conservationist poses the question: “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?” Erosion is a “call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times” … it is a “book for this moment, political and spiritual at once, written by one of our greatest naturalists, essayists, and defenders of the environment,” according to Sarah Crichton Books, of Macmillan Publishers. Tempest Williams has written 18 books, including When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks and Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. She’s written columns and essays for Outside magazine, Orion, the New York Times, and Los Angeles Times, and High Country News. Since 2017, Tempest Williams has served as writer-in-residence at Harvard Divinity School, dividing her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley. Since the Harvard
