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Abbey, Edward (1927 - 1989), Ecologists, Essayists, Fiction Writers

in American National Biography Online

Published in print January 1999 | ISBN: 9780198606697
Published online February 2000 |
Abbey, Edward (1927 - 1989), Ecologists, Essayists, Fiction Writers

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essayist, novelist, and radical ecologist, was born in Home, Pennsylvania, the son of Paul Revere Abbey, a farmer, and Mildred Postlewaite, a public schoolteacher. He was raised, with four siblings, on a hardscrabble farm. A turning point in late adolescence came out of some months of hitchhiking around the western United States, with which he ever after fervently identified himself.

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