Lawrence Millman

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Lawrence Millman (born January 13, 1946, in Kansas City, Missouri) is an adventure travel writer and mycologist from Cambridge, Massachusetts. [1] [2]

He is the author of eighteen books, including Goodbye, Ice: Arctic Poems, Fungipedia, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Northern Latitudes, Last Places, An Evening Among Headhunters, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Lost in the Arctic, and Fascinating Fungi of New England. His work has also appeared in Smithsonian , National Geographic Adventure , the Atlantic Monthly , Sports Illustrated. He has won numerous awards, including a Northern Lights Award, a Lowell Thomas Award, an award for the best article on Canada in a U.K. publication (1996), and a Pacific- Asia Gold Travel Award; he has been anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing (Houghton Mifflin) three years in a row.

Millman holds a Ph.D. in Literature from Rutgers University. A fellow of the prestigious Explorers Club, who subsequently resigned from the club, [3] he has made over 40 trips to the Arctic and Subarctic. He has discovered a previously unknown lake in Borneo, and there is a mountain named after him outside Tasiilaq in eastern Greenland.

Millman was close friends with the outdoor writer Elliott Merrick (1905-1997). [4]

References

  1. ↑ Rozell, Ned (September 24, 2016). "Meet Fungus Man, the character from Haida myth who embodies the ecological importance of fungus". Anchorage Daily News . Retrieved June 15, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Millman, Lawrence 1946–". Contemporary Authors . New Revision Series. Retrieved 2023-08-22– via Encyclopedia.com.
  3. ↑ Why I Dropped Out of the Explorer's Club, Lawrence Millman's blog, 8 Dec 2018
  4. ↑ Millman, Lawrence (May 3, 2020). "Elliott Merrick: A Remembrance". thoreaufarm.org . Retrieved June 15, 2022.
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