Scott Sanders (novelist)

Scott Russell Sanders (born 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American novelist and essayist.

Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. He is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. A frequent public lecturer, his essay "The Force of Spirit," which opens his 2000 book of essays by the same title, was first given as a lecture before the Orion Society's Millennium Conference in 1999. The essay later appeared in the Best American Essays 2000 and was the fourth essay of Sanders' to appear in the Best American series. He received the Lannan Literary Award in 1995 for his non-fiction writing and has received the Frederick Bachman Lieber Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award given at IU.

Sanders was a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, until his retirement in 2009, where he had taught since 1971. During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and as a Visiting Professor at University of Oregon, MIT, and Beloit College . He is married with two children, Eva and Jesse, both of whom he addresses in letters included in The Force of Spirit.

Works

Fiction

Novels

• Terrarium (1985) ISBN 0-253-32956-6
• Bad Man Ballad (1986) ISBN 0-02-778230-1
• The Engineer of Beasts (1986) ISBN 0-531-05783-6
• The Invisible Company (1989) ISBN 0-8125-5382-9

Short Story Collections

• Wilderness Plots (1983) ISBN 978-1-59098-180-1
• Fetching the Dead (1984)

Creative non-fiction/essays

• “Scott: Towards a Social Theory of Literature”. Telos 18 (Winter 1973-74). New York: Telos Press.
• The Paradise of Bombs (1987) ISBN 0-8203-0903-6
• In Limestone Country (1991)
• Secrets of the Universe: Scenes from the Journey Home (1991) ISBN 0-8070-6330-4
• Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World (1993) ISBN 0-8070-6340-1
• Writing from the Center (1995) ISBN 0-253-32941-8
• Hunting for Hope: A Father's Journeys (1998) ISBN 0-8070-6324-X
• The Country of Language (1999) ISBN 1-57131-229-3
• The Force of Spirit (2000) ISBN 0-8070-6298-7
• A Private History of Awe (2006) ISBN 978-0-86547-693-6
• A Conservationist Manifesto (2009) ISBN 0-253-22080-7

Children's books

• Hear the Wind Blow (1985) ISBN 978-0-02-778137-3
• Aurora Means Dawn (1989) ISBN 978-1-59098-427-7
• Warm as Wool (1992) ISBN 978-1-59098-421-5
• Here Comes the Mystery Man (1993) ISBN 978-0-02-778145-8
• Floating House (1995) ISBN 978-1-59098-425-3
• Meeting Trees (1996) ISBN 0-7922-4140-1
• A Place Called Freedom (1997) ISBN 978-0-689-80470-0
• Crawdad Creek (1999) ISBN 978-0-7922-7097-3

References

• http://www.scottrussellsanders.com/biog.html
• http://www.kenyonreview.org/interviews/sanders.php

External links

• Scott Russell Sanders official Web site
• Scott Russell Sanders Faculty Profile at Indiana University