Daniel Quinn(born 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American writer described as environmentalist. He is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.
Quinn himself does not identify as an "environmentalist," arguing instead as his central thesis (and throughout his works) that humans are not separate from but part of the so-called "environment" (which, like "nature," is typically conceived of as bei...
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Daniel Quinn(born 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American writer described as environmentalist. He is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991.
Quinn himself does not identify as an "environmentalist," arguing instead as his central thesis (and throughout his works) that humans are not separate from but part of the so-called "environment" (which, like "nature," is typically conceived of as being out there somewhere, and somehow distinct from us).
Daniel Quinn studied at Saint Louis University, University of Vienna, Austria, and Loyola University, receiving a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, in 1957.
In 1975, he abandoned his career as a publisher to become a freelance writer. Quinn is best known for his book Ishmael (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. This fellowship was established to encourage authors to seek "creative and positive solutions to global problems". Ishmael is the first of a...
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