Susan Brind Morrow

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Susan Brind Morrow (born 1958) is an American author and poet.

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Morrow was born in Geneva, New York. She attended Barnard College then studied classics as an undergraduate and graduate student at Columbia University in New York. She also studied Arabic and worked intensively on hieroglyphic texts for six years as a student of Egyptology. [1]

Morrow has written three non-fiction books, The Dawning Moon of the Mind (2015), Wolves and Honey: a history of the natural world (2004), and The Name of Things (1997). She also wrote a play, “ Mr. Analogue 200.” [2]

Her first book, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, is "travel writing and memoir threaded through with musings on the origins of words" which Annette Kobak says "manages to unlock a sense of the awe and poetry our most ancient ancestors must have felt in naming things for the first time". [3] The book was partially inspired by the death of her younger brother. [4] It was a finalist for the PEN: Martha Albrand Award for the Memoir in 1998.[ citation needed ] James Dickey praised her work, comparing it to the work of Stephen Crane, Robert Graves and Freya Stark. [5]

Her second book, Wolves and Honey: a history of the natural world, is an exploratory memoir. Morrow covers many of her interests including theosophy, the Finger Lakes region, the start of Mormonism, and the lasting relationships humans have cultivated with the natural environment, and bee-keeping. [6]

In her most recent book, The Dawning Moon of the Mind, Morrow argues that The Pyramid Texts are the “earliest body of written poetry and religious philosophy in the world” [7]

Morrow was a fellow of the Crane-Rogers Foundation/Institute of Current World Affairs in Egypt and Sudan (1988–90), noted as a prominent member after she dispatched The Dawning Moon of Mind. She is a 2006 fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation. [8] Morrow also has affiliations with the Lapham’s Quarterly Editorial Board Trustee and wrote an essay published on the website called The Turning Sky which detailed her accounts of translating various Egyptian texts.

She is married to the American essayist Lance Morrow. They live on a farm in Columbia County, New York.

Morrow's most recent event was at The Center of the study of World Religions at Harvard University from October 10 to 11 2018. [9]

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  2. ↑ "Author". Susan Brind Morrow. 2014-07-13. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  3. ↑ ANNETTE KOBAK (September 7, 1997). "Source Notes". The New York Times . Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. ↑ Condé Nast's Traveler. Condé Nast Publications. July 1997.
  5. ↑ Dickey, James (2005-12-01). The One Voice of James Dickey: His Letters and Life, 1970-1997 . University of Missouri Press. pp.  527–. ISBN   9780826264626 . Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  6. ↑ "Texas Tech University :: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". swco.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  7. ↑ "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  8. ↑ "Susan Brind Morrow 2006". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 March 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  9. ↑ "Events". Susan Brind Morrow. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  10. ↑ "Texas Archival Resources Online".
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