born Jan. 29, 1927, Home, Pa., U.S. died March 14, 1989, Oracle, Ariz. American writer whose works, set primarily in the southwestern United States, reflect an uncompromising environmentalist philosophy. The son of a Pennsylvania farmer, Abbey earned a B.A. (1951) and an M.A. (1956) at the University of New Mexico. He subsequently worked as a park ranger and fire lookout for the National Park Service in the Southwest, developing an intimacy with the region's landscape that was to shape his writing career. Central to this experience was the perspective it afforded on the human presence in the natural environment. Abbey observed both the remnants of ancient Indian cultures and the encroachment of consumer civilization. His book Desert Solitaire (1968) is an extended meditation on the sublime and forbidding wilderness of southeastern Utah and the human incursions upon it. This work, along with the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), which recounts the exploits of a band of guerrilla environmentalists, became virtual handbooks of the environmental movement. The strain of cynicism that runs through much of Abbey's writing is leavened by a bracing prose style and mischievous wit. His numerous other works include The Brave Cowboy (1958), Slickrock (1971), Abbey's Road (1979), and The Fool's Progress (1988). Hayduke Lives!, a sequel to The Monkey Wrench Gang, was published posthumously in 1990.
ABBEY, EDWARD
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