biography
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Krutch, Joseph Wood
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| male
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| lived:
| (1893–1970)
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| biography:
| Writer, critic, and naturalist, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. He graduated from the University of Tennessee and received a PhD in English from Columbia University (1923). He was drama critic for The Nation (1924–52), and taught at Columbia (1937–52), publishing critical studies of Samuel Johnson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau. His Measure of Man won a National Book Award in 1954. He moved to Tucson, AZ for his health in 1952, fell under the spell of the natural environment, and published a number of lyrical works about the life of the desert. Toward the end of his life he wrote and narrated television specials about the Sonora desert, the Grand Canyon, and Baja California. |
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