David Gessner Biography

David Gessner is the author of six books of literary nonfiction including Sick of Nature Soaring with Fidel and Return of the Osprey which was chosen as one of the top 10 nonfiction books of the year 2001 by The Boston Globe. His essay “Those Who Teach Write” appeared in the college issue of The New York Times Magazine in September 2008 and other essays have appeared in Best American Nonrequired Reading The Pushcart Prize anthology NPR’s This I Believe The Georgia Review and The Harvard Review. He is a contributing editor to OnEarth magazine the journal of the National Resource Defense Council where he has contributed cover stories and features and his book reviews have appeared in the New York Times Book Review Washington Post Book World and the Los Angeles Times. Gessner taught Environmental Writing as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard and is currently a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he also edits the literary journal of place Ecotone. His Youtube video “Skiing the Beach” has been seen by over 12000 viewers and he now devotes much of his energy to blogging on his website “Bill and Dave’s Cocktail Hour.”
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