Compression Wood

Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
7 p.m.
Bucknell Hall

Franklin Burroughs

Franklin Burroughs is the author of three books: Billy Watson’s Croaker Sack (1991), The River Home (1992), and Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay (2006). His essays have appeared in The American Scholar, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Harper’s Magazine and The Sewanee Review. They have been reprinted in such anthologies as Best American Essays (1989, 1999), The Pushcart Prize (1989), and The Norton Anthology of Nature Writing.

He received an NEA fellowship in creative nonfiction in 1994, and was awarded the Cecil Woods Prize for nonfiction by the Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2005. He is currently working on a collection of essays, tentatively entitled Home Again, Home Again.

Educated at the University of the South and Harvard University, he taught English literature at Bowdoin College from 1968 until 2002, when he retired as Harrison McCann Professor of the English Language.