Terry Tempest Williams

Born in Corona, California, The United States September 05, 1955
Websitehttp://www.coyoteclan.com/
GenreOutdoors & Nature, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality
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Terry Tempest Williams is an American author, conservationist and activist. Williams’ writing is rooted in the American West and has been significantly influenced by the arid landscape of her native Utah in which she was raised. Her work ranges from issues of ecology and wilderness preservation, to women's health, to exploring our relationship to culture and nature.

She has testified before Congress on women’s health, committed acts of civil disobedience in the years 1987 - 1992 in protest against nuclear testing in the Nevada Desert, and again, in March, 2003 in Washington, D.C., with Code Pink, against the Iraq War. She has been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of the Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.

Williams is the author of Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her book Finding Beauty in a Broken World was published in 2008 by Pantheon Books.

In 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfictionand a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Williams was featured in Ken Burns' PBS series The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009). In 2011, she received the 18th International Peace Award given by the Community of Christ Church.

Williams is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah and a columnist for the magazine The Progressive. She has been a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College where she continues to teach. She divides her time between Wilson, Wyoming and Castle Valley, Utah, where her husband Brooke is field coordinator for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.

"TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS'S BOOKS"

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
4.12 avg rating — 6,441 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
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When Women Were Birds: Fift... When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
4.09 avg rating — 3,210 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions
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Red: Passion and Patience i... Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert
3.96 avg rating — 942 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions
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An Unspoken Hunger: Stories... An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field
4.07 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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Finding Beauty in a Broken ... Finding Beauty in a Broken World
3.89 avg rating — 657 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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Leap Leap
3.73 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions
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The Open Space of Democracy The Open Space of Democracy
by Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Frank (Illustrator)
4.19 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions
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Pieces of White Shell Pieces of White Shell
3.85 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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Desert Quartet: An Erotic L... Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape
by Terry Tempest Williams, Mary Frank (Illustrator)
4.19 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions
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Coyote's Canyon Coyote's Canyon
by Terry Tempest Williams, John Telford