Jeff Long
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Jeff Long is an American
writer
. Long is an experienced climber, and rock climbing
often manifests in his writing.
Many of his stories include plot elements that rely heavily on religious history or popular perceptions of religious events.
Long won the 1993 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
with his book, The Ascent.
United States
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writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
. Long is an experienced climber, and rock climbing
Rock climbing
Rock climbing also lightly called 'The Gravity Game', is a sport in which participants climb up, down or across natural rock formations or artificial rock walls. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a pre-defined route without falling...
often manifests in his writing.
Many of his stories include plot elements that rely heavily on religious history or popular perceptions of religious events.
Long won the 1993 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for 'an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.' It was established in memory of Peter Boardman and Joe...
with his book, The Ascent.
Fiction
- Angels of Light
- The Ascent
- Empire of Bones
- The DescentThe Descent (novel)The Descent is a 1999 science-fiction/horror novel by American author Jeff Long.-Introduction:The novel follows events surrounding the discovery and exploration of a vast labyrinth of tunnels and passages stretching throughout the sub-surface of the entire world, inhabited by several species of...
- Year Zero
- The Wall
- The ReckoningThe Reckoning (2004 novel)-Synopsis:Molly is a freelance photographer and journalist who has just been offered an assignment by the New York Times: travel to Cambodia to cover a U.S. military search for the body of an American pilot who went down thirty years ago during the Vietnam War. She meets up with the search team...
- Deeper: A NovelDeeper (Long novel)Deeper is a 2007 novel by Jeff Long and is the sequel to his 1999 novel, The Descent.-Introduction:The subterranean world, populated by the hominid Homo Hadalis was declared "sanitized" by a bio-engineered viral pandemic left by the Helios expedition a decade ago, killing all of the violent Hadals...
Non-fiction
- Outlaw: The Story of Claude DallasClaude DallasClaude Lafayette Dallas, Jr. was a self-styled mountain man. The son of a dairy farmer, he spent his early years in Luce County, Michigan, later moving to rural Morrow County, Ohio where he liked to trap and hunt game. Dallas graduated from Mount Gilead High School, Mount Gilead, Ohio in 1967...
- Duel of Eagles: The Mexican and U.S. Fight for the Alamo