Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.[1] His novels include, among others, Travel Notes (1967), The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine (1972), Some Instructions (1978), and Petroleum Man (2005). His nonfiction works include A Garlic Testament (1992), a biography of life on his farm in Dixon, New Mexico. Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988) was the winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.[2]
Stanley Crawford | |
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| Born | 1937 |
| Died | (aged 86) Dixon, New Mexico, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Paris |
| Notable awards | Western States Book Award (1988) |
Biography
editCrawford was born in 1937, and was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne. He moved to Dixon, New Mexico in 1970, where he owned El Bosque, a garlic farm,[3] and served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.[4] Crawford died in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.[5]
Works
edit- Crawford, Stanley (1966). Gascoyne. New York: Putnam. OCLC 1395235.
- Reissued by Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-1468307962.
- Crawford, Stanley (1968). Travel Notes (from here—to there). Simon & Schuster. OCLC 437091.
- Reissued by Calamari Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-940853-02-4.
- Crawford, Stanley (1972). The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1564785122.
- Crawford, Stanley (1978). Some Instructions. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 0916583155.
- Crawford, Stanley (1988). Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826309992.
- Reissued by University of New Mexico Press, 1993. ISBN 0826314457.
- Crawford, Stanley (1998). A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826325319.
- Crawford, Stanley (2003). The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826328571.
- Crawford, Stanley (2005). Petroleum Man. Penguin. ISBN 978-1468307979.
- Crawford, Stanley (2015). Seed. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573661836.
- Crawford, Stanley (2016). Intimacy. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573660549.
- Crawford, Stanley (2017). Village: a novel. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652950.
- Crawford, Stanley (2019). The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652059
References
edit- ^ "Stanley G. Crawford". Lannan.org. Lannan Foundation. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ "Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico". Kirkus. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ Raver, Ann (July 13, 2011). "Secrets of a Garlic Grower". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ Mora, Joseph (February 7, 2014). "Arriving in Style: The Slow, Deliberate Odyssey of Stanley Crawford and the Santa Fe Farmer's Market". Edible. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
- ^ "New Mexico author and garlic farmer Stanley Crawford dies at 86". Albuquerque Journal. January 30, 2024. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
Further reading
edit- Bates, Sarah F. (1993). Searching Out the Headwaters: Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy. Island Press. pp. 22, 50–52. ISBN 978-1-55963-218-8.
- Powers, Bill (2010). Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin off the Grid & Beyond The American Dream. New World Library. pp. 85–94. ISBN 978-1-57731-898-9.
- Rivera, José A. (1998). Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN 978-0-8263-1858-9.
Interviews
edit- Carroll, Sean P. (September 2008). "An Interview with Stanley Crawford". Bookslut. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Guengerich, Gail (April 4–10, 2013). "Leaves and Asphalt: Stanley Crawford and the center of the universe". Weekly Alibi. Vol. 22, no. 14. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Sparks, Stephen (May 20, 2014). "Stanley Crawford". Bomb. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Unferth, Deb Olin (September 9, 2008). "Interview with Stanley Crawford". Powell's Books Blog. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Young, Alex (April 3, 2009). "An Interview with Stanley Crawford". NewWest.net. August Publications. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
Reviews
edit- Gascoyne
- Ventura, Michael (November 25, 2005). "Letters at 3AM: The return of Gascoyne". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Travel Notes
- Carroll, Tobias (April 2, 2014). "Tobias Carroll on Travel Notes: The Ever-Shifting Status". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Jauchen, Michael (April 3, 2014). "Travel Notes (From here — to there) – Stanley Crawford". Full Stop. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- Petroleum Man
- Riker, Martin (June 22, 2006). "Stanley Crawford. Petroleum Man. (Book review)". The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. (subscription required)
- Warzel, Peter C. (July–August 2005). "Bedtime Stories from the Business World". American Book Review. 26 (5). (subscription required)