David Gessner

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March 15, 1951 in Boston, MA, The United States

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http://www.davidgessner.com/

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Outdoors & Nature

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David Gessner is the author of eight books, including Sick of Nature, The Prophet of Dry Hill, and Return of the Osprey, which was chosen by the Boston Globe as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year and the Book-of-the-Month club as one of its top books of the year. The Globe called it a "classic of American Nature Writing." In 2006 he won a Pushcart Prize; in 2007 he won the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay; and in 2008 his essay, "The Dreamer Does Not exist," was chosen for The Best American Nonrequired Reading. His work has appeared in many magazines and journals including The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Outside, The Georgia Review, The Harvard Review, and Orion. He has taught environmental wri...more

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Bad Advice Wednesday: Interview Yourself, Interview your Characters

He was very, very, very good to me.

Much has been written in journalism texts about the art of the interview. Basically, I’ve found that interviewing for journalism is a matter of fooling your subject into revealing herself, perhaps in ways she’ll wish later she hadn’t. People love to talk, especially about themselves. Note-taking, the tape recorder, the endless questions, all are flattering,...

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Books by David Gessner

Average rating: 3.84 · 1,030 ratings · 169 reviews · 14 distinct works

	Sick Of Nature 3.89 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	My Green Manifesto: Down the Charles River in Pursuit of a New Environmentalism 4.10 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Soaring with Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond 3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Return of the Osprey: A Season of Flight and Wonder 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and Into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Wild, Rank Place 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Prophet of Dry Hill: Lessons From a Life in Nature 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Under the Devil's Thumb 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ecotone: Reimagining Place (Spring 2008; Vol. 3, No. 2) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ecotone: Reimagining Place 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	My rating: