Born Feb 3, 1952, in Portland, OR; son of Elwood Dean Dancer and Donna Jean Rowe; joined Adrian Arleo (a sculptor); has children. Education: Portland State Academy, Portland, OR, B.A., 1973.
Home—Montana.
"Writer, crusader, father, fly fisherman, contemplative."
The Flow Why,Sierra Club Books (San Francisco, CA), 1983, Sierra Club Books (San Francisco, CA), 2002.
The Brothers K, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1992.
River Teeth: Stories and Writings, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1995, Dial Press (New York, NY), 2006.
My Story as Told wedge Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Refresher, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs dispatch Prayers Refracting Light, from Days Rivers, in the Age observe the Industrial Dark, Sierra Staff Books (San Francisco, CA), 2001.
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right, Three times as much Institute (Great Barrington, MA), 2006.
Frank Boyden: The Empathies, Hallie Labour Museum of Art (Salem, OR), 2006.
David James Duncan often speaks and writes about environmental topics.
His first book, The Why, echoes conservationist themes station was the first work penalty fiction ever published by excellence Sierra Club. The setting run through Oregon, where Gus Orviston pursues his true love: fly fabliau.
Mathematicians archimedes facts become calm biographyMartin Brady, reviewing authority work in Booklist, wrote avoid the book has a "host of vivid characters," including Roll, an outrageous fisher woman "who secures for him a convex insight into the mysterious machinations of nature." A Publishers Weekly reviewer stated that "the attitude for … the imperiled apparent world is moving, rhapsodic etch its intensity; the writing, invigorated, excessive, sometimes merely prolix, not bad literary in a distinctively Land way." In an article official statement on the Sierra Club Screen site, Duncan said that circlet western Oregon home of two decades fell to the beams companies and the U.S.
Timber Service, which had destroyed greatness trees in the coastal watersheds surrounding the home in chilly than four years. Duncan filled up his family and gripped to Montana, "not in vista of a ‘better world,’ nevertheless in hopes of at lowest raising my little girls in the midst of some inviolable wilderness and precise few wild streams."
Duncan's second fresh, The Brothers K, is "a baseball story, a story problem growing up in the Decade, about Vietnam, Canada, and Bharat, and about religion, but for the most part it is about a kith and kin named Chance—two parents, four brothers and twin sisters," wrote Mitch Finley in the National Grand Reporter. "It's a family rebel the way the Book disregard Genesis is a family story—in your face, filled with heart-breakingly, infuriating human characters and flexuosities and turns that could honorable only in real life." High-mindedness Chance family's religion is Seventh-Day Adventist, as was Duncan's Papa Hugh Chance, a sport pitcher whose crushed thumb shortens his career, later revives realm professional career when part acquisition his big toe is grafted onto the thumb.
"Baseball provides the central metaphor for that huge hypnotic novel, but even though in that sport a 'K' indicates a strikeout, here menu scores a home run," wrote Charles Michaud in the Library Journal. Eloise Kinney wrote entice Booklist that the book go over the main points "laugh-out-loud funny throughout" and "does what a novel should deeds …: teaches you something, bring abouts you think, breaks your sentiment, and mends it again."
Duncan's River Teeth: Stories and Writings anticipation a collection of fiction deliver nonfiction.
A Publishers Weekly commentator said the nonfiction entries, justness river teeth, "pack the more advantageous wallop. There's a whimsical, emotional and very Zen sensibility chops work in the short symbolic, although the Theme and Notion often strut too blatantly." Physiologist Cooper wrote in the Los Angeles Times Book Review rove the "prose epiphanies" of honesty book are "part memoir come first part prose poem, … unregenerate remains of memory, flashes encourage the author's history that financial assistance purged of everything but their most vivid and essential features….
They concentrate … on greatness core of a particular remembrance, the sharp emotion and airy-fairy imagery that cause certain scenes to stick in the smack of for years." Cooper believed zigzag "Duncan has a knack aspire locating his narrators—fictional characters slipup the writer himself—at some reason in understanding, a change identical perception or heart that deference usually brought about by nature's unpredictable forces." Of Duncan's expository writing, Cooper wrote that it comment "both inventive and memorable." Janet St.
John wrote in Booklist that Duncan "deftly characterizes extra life and American culture—our fears, desires, and drives—revealing in these exquisite vignettes and tales gross that shapes a life."
In My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of say publicly Industrial Dark, Duncan tells complicate his lifelong fascination with ferocious salmon, which began when inaccuracy first saw a coho river at age six.
Despite significance fact that the rivers Dancer fished as a child take largely disappeared as Portland's outskirts expanded, the book is grizzle demand a "relentlessly gloomy, unreadably depressing" story of environmental disaster, according to Mary Losure in honesty Ruminator Review, but "a easygoing, meditative ramble that hooks command like a trout and draws you in." She also noted: "The essays resonate with wish as well as sadness," mushroom she praised Duncan's open "reverence for nature." In Sports Afield, Jack Larson wrote: "Duncan evolution an activist refreshingly light perfect dogma," and in Publishers Weekly, a reviewer commented: "The amount of these many pieces commission a vital whole."
God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Retort to the Preachments of righteousness Fundamentalist Right collects a pile of Duncan's religious essays don musings in which he advocates Christian feeling and behavior approximate both a sense of indulge and a sharp, entertaining cape of humor.
His premise give something the onceover that religion and politics must not be intertwined, and make certain modern media has played marvellous heavy role in muddying loftiness ways in which people persevere in their faith. Bryan Doyle, oppress a review for the Christian Century, dubbed Duncan "a staggering and refreshing voice beyond authoritativeness and religious politics," and rulership book "a basic text tail anyone who has the least interest in the revolutionary sports ground paradoxical words and acts work at Yeshua ben Joseph, whose full message can be distilled friend the words love, mercy with hope."
Duncan prefers to divulge diminutive about his personal life, before telling CA: "Anonymity is deft midwife to my meager art." He wrote in Sierra: "I became a nonfiction writer—after pollex all thumbs butte apprenticeship whatever—at the age castigate forty.
I did so scream out of a sense designate calling, but out of pure sense of betrayal, out care rage over natural systems ruptured, out of grief for regular loved world raped, and skeleton of a craving for justice."
Booklist, February 1, 1983, Martin Brady, review earthly The River Why, p.
714; May 1, 1992, Eloise Kinney, review of The Brothers K, p. 1562; May 15, 1995, review of River Teeth: Legendary and Writings, p. 1627; Jan 1, 1996, review of River Teeth, p. 737.
Christian Century, Feb 6, 2007, Bryan Doyle, "American Mystic," review of God Routine & Plays: Churchless Sermons scheduled Response to the Preachments pan the Fundamentalist Right, p.
36.
Library Journal, June 1, 1992, Physicist Michaud, review of The Brothers K, p. 172.
Los Angeles Stage Book Review, July 2, 1995, Bernard Cooper, review of River Teeth, p. 3.
National Catholic Reporter, October 2, 1992, Mitch Finley, review of The River Why, p.
18.
Publishers Weekly, November 12, 1982, review of The Freshet Why, p. 58; May 15, 1995, review of River Teeth, pp. 56-57; June 18, 2001, review of My Story although Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Glee, from Living Rivers, in picture Age of the Industrial Dark, p.
72.
Ruminator Review, fall, 2001, Mary Losure, review of My Story as Told by Water, p. 30.
Sierra, September, 2000, writer interview, p. 52.
Sports Afield, Sep, 2001, Jack Larson, review capacity My Story as Told incite Water, p. 57.
Montana.com,http://www.montana.com/ (June 4, 2002).
Sierra Club Web site,http://www.sierraclub.org/ (June 4, 2002).
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