Richard Manning
Encyclopedia
Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist, with particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie
, agriculture and poverty. He writes frequently about trauma and poverty for the National Native Children's Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he is a senior research associate. (www.goodworksintrauma.org) He is the author of eight books, and his articles have been published in Harper's Magazine
, The New York Times
, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon and The Bloomsbury Review.
. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from Stanford University
. He is a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and has also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992.
He lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife, Tracy Stone-Manning.
Prairie
Prairies are considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type...
, agriculture and poverty. He writes frequently about trauma and poverty for the National Native Children's Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he is a senior research associate. (www.goodworksintrauma.org) He is the author of eight books, and his articles have been published in Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts, with a generally left-wing perspective. It is the second-oldest continuously published monthly magazine in the U.S. . The current editor is Ellen Rosenbush, who replaced Roger Hodge in January 2010...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon and The Bloomsbury Review.
Life
Manning worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for more than 30 years, including four years at the MissoulianMissoulian
The Missoulian is a daily newspaper printed in Missoula, Montana. Its circulation is 34,855 on Sundays, 30,466 on weekdays. The newspaper is owned by Lee Enterprises. The Missoulian is the 2nd largest published newspaper in Montana, just behind the Billings Gazette...
. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
. He is a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and has also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992.
He lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife, Tracy Stone-Manning.
Books
- Last Stand (1991) ISBN 978-0879053895
- A Good House (1994) ISBN 978-0140234077
- Grassland (1997) ISBN 978-0140233889
- One Round River (1998) ISBN 978-0805047929
- Food's Frontier (2001) ISBN 978-0520232631
- Inside Passage (2001) ISBN 978-1559636551
- Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (2004) ISBN 978-0865476226
- Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape (2009) ISBN 978-0520256583
Articles
- "Mountains, Elk and Sprawl" (2002), for Common Dreams
- "Sprawl Across A Suffering Land" (2003), for CounterPunchCounterpunchCounterpunch can refer to:* Counterpunch , a punch in boxing* CounterPunch, a bi-weekly political newsletter* Counterpunch , a type of punch used in traditional typography* Punch-Counterpunch, a Transformers character...
- "The Oil We Eat" (2004) for Harper's Magazine