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Sean Murphy

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born

New York, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.murphyzen.com

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

influences

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vladimir Nabokov, Witold Gombrowicz, Douglas A...more

member since

March 2008

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SEAN MURPHY'S debut novel, The Hope Valley Hubcap King, (Bantam/Dell, 2002/2004), won the Hemingway Award for a First Novel and was a 2003 Book Sense pick. See info on his latest, The Time of New Weather, below. He is also the author of the Pulitzer-nominated The Finished Man (Bantam/Dell 2004), as well as One Bird, One Stone (Renaissance/St. Martins 2002), a nonfiction chronicle of Zen practice in America. He has been a Zen meditation practitioner for 20 years, and teaches meditation, creative writing and literature for UNM-Taos, as well as leading writing workshops for a variety of organizations and his own Big Sky Writing Workshops

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Books by Sean Murphy

Average rating: 3.90 · 1,079 ratings · 169 reviews · 25 distinct works

	The Hope Valley Hubcap King 3.67 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Time of New Weather 3.22 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	One Bird, One Stone: 108 American Zen Stories 3.88 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Finished Man 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Off Road 3.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	The Spirit Man 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Astrocytes: Pharmacology and Function 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Joe the Barbarian by Grant Morrison, Sean Murphy (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 3.82 avg rating — 428 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	American Vampire, Vol. 3 by Scott Snyder (Goodreads Author), Rafael Albuquerque (Illustrator), Sean Murphy (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.27 avg rating — 353 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Batman: Two-Face/Scarecrow Year One by Bruce Jones (Goodreads Author), Mark Sable (Goodreads Author), Jesus Saiz (Illustrator) 3.56 avg rating — 93 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention

by Ken McLeod

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Sean said "yes" to attending the event: Andrew Harvey Sacred Activism Seminar date: July 07, 2009 11:00AM location: Creativity and Consciousness Institute, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Ranchos De Taos, NM, The United States description: For writers, activists, artists and seekers searching for a positive model of global change. Through exercises in writing, mindfulness, & environmental awareness, combined with examination of poet-mystics including Rumi and St. John of the Cross, we'll discover how the current 'dark night' of our environmental and social crises may provide opportunities for personal and global transformation. With well-known author mystics Andrew Harvey and Mirabai Starr
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Sean is currently reading: Wake Up To Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention by Ken McLeod	My rating:
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Sean gave to: The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges	My rating:
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