[Asterisk * indicates material added to the Second Edition.] *Foreword The Author's Preface to His Own Book From Jonathan Troy (1954) From The Brave Cowboy (1956) From Fire on the Mountain (1962) From Desert Solitaire (1968) Cowboys The Moon-Eyed Horse Havasu The Dead Man at Grandview Point Bedrock and Paradox From Appalachian Wilderness (1970) Appalachia From Black Sun (1971) From The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) Seldom Seen at Home From The Journey Home (1977) The Great American Desert Death Valley Manhattan Twilight, Hoboken Night Telluride Blues--A Hatchet Job From Abbey's Road (1979) Anna Creek The Outback A Desert Isle Sierra Madre Down There in the Rocks Science with a Human Face In Defense of the Redneck Fire Lookout The Sorrows of Travel From Good News (1980) From Down the River (1982) Down the River with Henry Thoreau Watching the Birds: The Windhover Of Protest My Friend Debris Floating From The Rites of Spring (novel in progress) *From Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984) Down to the Sea of Cortez *From The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel (1989) *From Hayduke Lives! (1990) Bonnie's Return *From Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey (1994) Flash Flood Down the River A Sonnet for Everett Ruess *From Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals (1994)
Edward Abbey was born in the town of Indiana, Pennsylvania
on January 29, 1927. He grew up around the nearby village of Home,
which now has a state historical marker commemorating Abbey. After
a brief military career 1945-1947 in Naples, Italy he attended
Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
In 1944 at age 17 he left the family farm in Home and set off to
see the American West. He hitchhiked and rode the rails--across the
Midwest to the Rockies and the West Coast, returning by way of the
Southwest. He fell in love with the desert, a love that shaped his
life and art for more than 40 years. For 15 years and well into his
forties, he worked as a part-time ranger and fire lookout at
several different national parks, his two seasons as a ranger at
Arches National Monument (later a national park) in Utah providing
the inspiration and raw material for Desert Solitaire.
In 1987, Edward Abbey was offered a major award by the American
Academy of Arts and Letters. Abbey declined the honor. He died in
1989.
"Abbey can attain a kind of glory in his writing. He takes scenes that have been well-traveled by other writers and recreates them as traditional American myth."--"New York Times Book Review "Praise the earth for Edward Abbey."--"Los Angeles Times Book Review
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