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Visiting
Writer-In-Residence Verlyn Klinkenborg Awarded
Guggenheim Fellowship
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Verlyn Klinkenborg, visiting writer-in-residence at Pomona
College, author and columnist for the New York Times, has
received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship for $39,000. The prestigious fellowships are
awarded to those who have demonstrated outstanding
achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future
accomplishment.
What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program is the
diversity of fellows selected in 78 different fields, from
the natural sciences to the creative arts. Past fellows
include scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize-winners.
These include: Ansel Adams, W. H. Auden, Aaron Copland,
Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir
Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul
Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson,
and Eudora Welty.
Klinkenborg will use the funding to work on his forthcoming
book, The Mermaids of Lapland, about William Cobbett
(1763-1835). Nearly forgotten today, Cobbett was
considered “unquestionably the most powerful political
writer of the present day” and “one of the best writers in
the language,” by essayist William Hazlitt. The evaluation
was echoed by many others. “Cobbett’s Weekly Political
Register, his newspaper, defined the opposition during
one of the most tyrannical epochs in modern British
history,” explains Klinkenborg. “But he was also a farmer,
an agricultural innovator, and a apostle of all things
rural.”
In The Mermaids of Lapland, whose title is from a
phrase written by Cobbett, Klinkenborg hopes to capture
Cobbett’s radicalism and reforming instinct to improve the
lives of small farmers and rural laborers—and reconceive it
as something that reaches across time.
Klinkenborg is a member of the editorial board of The New
York Times and is known for his essays on rural life, a
regular feature in the newspaper. His previous books include
Timothy; Or, Notes of an Abject Reptile (2006),
The Last Fine Time (2004), and Making Hay (1997).
He has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's,
Esquire, National Geographic, Mother Jones,
and the New York Times Magazine, among others.
A Pomona College graduate, Class of 1974, Klinkenborg served
as the College’s spring 2004-05 Moseley Fellow and is a
visiting writer-in-residence for 2006-07. He comes from a
family of Iowa farmers and normally resides on a small farm
in upstate New York.
Pomona College is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts
institutions, offering a comprehensive program in the arts,
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. Its
hallmarks include small classes, close relationships between
students and faculty, and a range of opportunities for
student research. |
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