William deBuys
Författare till The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
Om författaren
William deBuys is the author of many books, including, most recently, The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures. He lives in northern New Mexico.
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(eng) Full name: William Eno DeBuys
Foto taget av: photo by Ben Moscona
Verk av William deBuys
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1949
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- El Valle, New Mexico, USA
- Yrken
- writer
conservationist - Organisationer
- Valles Caldera Trust
- Kort biografi
- [excerpted from author's website]
Conservationist and writer William deBuys is the author of ten books. He has been a Kluge Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress (2018), a Guggenheim Fellow (2008-2009), and a Lyndhurst Fellow (1986-1988). He was the founding Chair of the Valles Caldera Trust, responsible for administering the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in northern New Mexico (2001-2004). He lives on the farm he has tended since 1976 in the remote village of El Valle in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains. - Särskiljningsnotis
- Full name: William Eno DeBuys
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- #61,078
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- 4.1
- Recensioner
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- 31
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