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BROWSE - AUTHORS


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Ira John La Rivers (1915-1977) received his BS in Zoology from the University of Nevada (1937). In 1948 he received his PhD from the University of California.... more
Charlton Laird (1901-1984) was a scholar, linguist, poet, novelist, nonfiction writer, editor and a teacher. He was born in Nashua, Iowa. While an undergraduate at the University of Iowa, he was a varsity fencer and worked as both an itinerant wheat harvester and summer preacher in the Midwest.... more
 
Susan Lamb is a writer and naturalist who lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, with her husband, photographer Tom Bean. She writes for regional conservation groups, serves as a docent at Flagstaff's Arboretum, keeps an almanac of over eighty wildflower species in the woods around her home, and teaches occasional workshops at Northern Arizona University.... more
Barbara and Myrick Land were working journalists before they married in 1949. Both continued to write for newspapers and magazines over the years as they traveled, raised a family, and wrote books under separate and joint by-lines.... more
 
 
Susan Lang grew up on her mother's homestead in a remote canyon nearly as wild as her fictionalized valley. As an instructor of English at Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona for over twenty years, she founded and still directs the Southwest Writers Series, and in 1995 she founded the Hassayampa Institute for Creative Writing.... more
Ronald M. Lanner, Professor Emeritus at Utah State University, retired to California after 28 years of teaching forest biology courses. His major research interests, which he has pursued worldwide, have included natural hybridization in pines, effects of aging on trees, bud development in pines, and the ecological and evolutionary effects of mutualisms of birds and pines.... more