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Show Id Abbey, naturalist, miter to speak Tuesday, 8 p. m. Edward Abbey, writer-in-residence, will explore the lasting value and purpose of writing in our modern society Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Mark H. Greene Hall. The free speech is sponsored by the Department of English. In his lecture entitled "Notes from a Burning Bush," Mr. Abbey will reaffirm that writing and writers are still very important despite the challenge of a modern world conditioned by television, movies, drugs, instant news and image-makers. Mr. Abbey, a naturalist as well as a writer, has written three novels on life in Southwest America where he has mostly lived since 1947. His novels are Jonathan Troy, Fire on the Mountain and The Brave Cowboy. The last book was made into the film "Lonely Are the jBrave." 1 Because of his love affair with Utah's Arches National Monument pea, Mr. Abbey also wrote the nonfiction Desert Solitaire. He recently published articles for The Magazine of Natural History and Life jmagazine. 1 Mr. Abbey was raised in Pennsylvania and is currently working on a jwvel about Pennsylvania farm life. In 1947 he moved to the Southwest ?J1 received his B.A. and MA. degrees from the University of New Mexico. He also studied at Edinburgh University in Scotland, j In addition to writing, Mr. Abbey is also a conservationist and has yent 15 years as a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service and National Park rvice. He spends some of his time, lecturing and most of his summers B a fire lookout at the north rim of the Grand C?nyin. i |
