Robert Finch (nature writer)

Robert Finch (born 1943) is an American nature writer and essayist.

Biography

He was born in West Virginia and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He has lived in Cape Cod since 1971 and has written several books about the nature, natural and human histories of Cape Cod. His first book, "Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod" (1981), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for non fiction in 1982.

Robert Finch has served as publications director for the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and as a staff member of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College. His radio show with the National Public Radio member station WGBH, titled "A Cape Cod Notebook", won the 2006 "New England Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Radio Writing." For ten years, Finch also taught creative nonfiction in the Spalding University Master of Fine Arts program. .[1]

Praises for Robert Finch

Annie Dillard said: "Robert Finch is one of our finest observers...I admire his essays very much for their strength, subtlety, and above all their geniality." [2]

Bibliography

Collections of Essays

Common Ground: A Naturalist's Cape Cod (1981) (ISBN 0393311791)
The Primal Place (1983) (ISBN 0881507687)
Outlands: Journey to the Outer Edges of Cape Cod (1986) (ISBN 0879237422)
Death of a Hornet: and Other Cape Cod Essays (2001) (ISBN 1582431388)
The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore (2007) (ISBN 1582434212)
A Cape Cod Notebook (2011) (ISBN 9780978576691)

Travel Guides

Cape Cod: Its Natural and Cultural History (1993) (ISBN 0912627565)
Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands (2003) (ISBN 1889833517)

Co-authored and edited books

The Norton Book of Nature Writing (co-edited with John Elder) (1990) (ISBN 0393027996)
The Cape Itself (with photographs by Ralph MacKenzie) (1991) (ISBN 0393029948)
A Place Apart: A Cape Cod Reader (1993) (ISBN 0881508594)
The Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: Southern New England: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island (co-authored with Jonathan Wallen) (1996) (ISBN 0679764755)

References

  1. ↑ "19th Century Mapmaking of the Cape & Islands". Cape Cod Today. 22 October 2009. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
  2. ↑ Finch, Robert (2001). Death of a Hornet: and Other Cape Cod Essays. Counterpoint. pp. back cover. ISBN 1-58243-138-8.

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