Leila Philip

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Leila Philip


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Leila Philip, creative nonfiction, is the author of A Family Place (SUNY, 2009) and The Road Through Miyama (Random House, 1989), which won the PEN 1990 Martha Albrand Citation for Nonfiction. She has received awards for her writing from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

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Beaverland: How One Weird R...

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The Road Through Miyama

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A Family Place: A Hudson Va...

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Writing Down the River: Int...

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River Teeth: A Journal of N...

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“More beavers surface; the water is now moving with the shapes of many slick brown bodies. Whales swim in pods, wolves travel in packs, crows descend in a murder, while owls form a parliament, but there is no word for groups of beaver because they are rarely seen together like this.”
Leila Philip, Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

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