Paul_Brooks_(author)

Paul Brooks (writer)

Paul Brooks (writer)

American writer and environmentalist

Paul Brooks (1909–1998) was a nature writer, book editor, and environmentalist.[1]

Brooks received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in 1931, where he was the editor of the Harvard Lampoon.[1] Soon after graduation, he became an employee at the publishing company Houghton Mifflin in Boston and remained with the company for 40 years. He was editor-in-chief of Houghton Mifflin's General Book Department from 1943 until his retirement in 1969. He wrote Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir, containing anecdotes about his experiences editing the works of Rachel Carson, Roger Tory Peterson, Winston Churchill, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and James Agee, among others.[2] Paul Brooks suggested the title Silent Spring for Rachel Carson's famous book.[3]

In 1965 Brooks won the John Burroughs Medal for his 1964 book Roadless Area.

Books

  • Roadless Area. New York: Knopf. 1964; 259 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[4]
  • The Pursuit of Wilderness. Houghton Mifflin. 1971. ISBN 9780395120934; 220 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[5][6]
  • The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work. Boston: G. K. Hall. 1972.[7][8]
  • The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town. Houghton Mifflin. 1976. ISBN 9780395243985; 273 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[9]
  • Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America. Houghton Mifflin. 1980. ISBN 9780395296103.[10][11]
  • The Old Manse and the People Who Lived There. Trustees of Reservations, The Old Manse, Concord, Massachusetts. 1983.
  • Two Park Street: a Publishing Memoir. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1986. ISBN 9780395377741; 157 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)[12]
  • The People of Concord: One Year in the Flowering of New England. Chester, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press. 1990. ISBN 9780871064349. Brooks, Paul (2014). Dover reprint. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486781433; pbk, 304 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

References

  1. [1]
    "Paul Brooks papers, 10 April 1852 - 12 December 1998, The Paul Brooks Collection". The Walden Woods Project (walden.org). 10 March 2016; collection processed, December 2014, by Chloe Morse-Harding{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. [2]
    "Review of Two Park Street by Paul Brooks". Publishers Weekly. 1 December 1986.
  3. [3]
    Waddell, Craig, ed. (2000). And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Southern Illinois University Press. pp. xv–xvi. ISBN 9780809322183.
  4. [4]
    "Review of Roadless Area by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews.
  5. [5]
    Smith, Anthony (January 1972). "Review of The Pursuit of Wilderness, by Paul Brooks". Oryx. 11 (4): 288. doi:10.1017/s0030605300010139.
  6. [6]
    "Review of The Pursuit of Wilderness by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 17 May 1971.
  7. [7]
    Johnson, Josephine (30 April 1972). "Review of The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work by Paul Brooks". NY Times.
  8. [8]
    "Review of The House of Life: Rachel Carson at Work by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 13 March 1972.
  9. [9]
    "Review of The View from Lincoln Hill: Man and the Land in a New England Town by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 6 August 1976.
  10. [10]
    Lillard, Richard G. (1 April 1981). "Review of Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America by Paul Brooks". Forest & Conservation History. 25 (2): 109–110. doi:10.2307/4004551. JSTOR 4004551.
  11. [11]
    "Review of Speaking for Nature: How Literary Naturalists from Henry Thoreau to Rachel Carson Have Shaped America by Paul Brooks". Kirkus Reviews. 23 October 1980.
  12. [12]
    Basbanes, Nicholas A. (December 1987). "Review of Two Park Street: A Publishing Memoir by Paul Brooks". The New England Quarterly. 60 (4): 646–648. doi:10.2307/365433. JSTOR 365433.
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