John Daniel's books of prose, including Rogue River Journal and The Far Corner, have won three Oregon Book Awards for Literary Nonfiction, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and have been supported by a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts among other grants and awards. His essays and poems have appeared in Wilderness Magazine, Orion, Sierra, Terrain.org, The North American Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and other journals and anthologies. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer at Stanford University, he has taught as a writer-in-residence at colleges and universities across the country. Earlier in life he was a logger, hod carrier, railroader, and rock-climbing instructor. Daniel lives with his wife, Marilyn Daniel, in the Coast Range foothills west of Eugene, Oregon.
Praise for John Daniel
"The Far Corner makes such good company because the writing is
patient with what it wants to discuss. It thinks, recognizes nuance
and includes it rather than dismissing it. The result is a view (of
rivers, logging, Wallace Stegner, nonfiction prose) that's layered
rather than simplistic and accurate rather than glib. John Daniel's
essays sound a voice that wants to tell the truth and that finds
outand makes clearhow complicated and mysterious an effort this
can be." —Lex Runciman, Professor of English, Linfield College
"As beautifully wrought as it is truthful, Rogue River Journal is a
Walden for our time." —Pacific Northwest Booksellers Awards
Committee
"John Daniel has quietly established himself over the past decade
as one of the premier writers on the West Coast." —The Bloomsbury
Review
"John Daniel loves wilderness of all kinds, and gets out into it
every chance, but it is more than scenery he is after. He has a
streak of mysticism, some generalized religious sense, that is
stimulated by the natural world, by physical effort, as in
climbing, and by participation in the sounds and smells and seasons
of nature . . . his essays will win him devoted readers." —Wallace
Stegner
"Daniel's writing is known for its clarity." —The Oregonian
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