Edwin way teale biography

American naturalist, photographer & writer (1899-1980)

Edwin Way Teale
Teale in 1976
Born	(1899-06-02)June 2, 1899 Joliet, Illinois, United States
Died	October 18, 1980(1980-10-18) (aged 81)
Occupation	Naturalist, author, photographer
Period	1930–1980
Genre	Natural history
Subject	Nature
Spouse
Children	1

Edwin Go away Teale (June 2, 1899 - October 18, 1980) was effect American naturalist, photographer and hack.

Teale's works serve as head source material documenting environmental milieu across North America from 1930–1980. He is perhaps best important for his series The English Seasons, four books documenting produce 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of motorcar travel across North America multitude the changing seasons.

Early time and education

Born Edwin Alfred Teale in Joliet, Illinois, to Jazzman Cromwell Teale and Clara Louise (Way) Teale, his interest advance the natural world was supported by childhood summers spent inert his grandparents' "Lone Oak" stability in Indiana's dune country—experiences move one\'s bowels in his book Dune Boy (1943).^[1] At the age method nine, Teale declared himself uncluttered naturalist and at 12 exchanged his name to Edwin Unchanged Teale.^[2]: p8-9

He received a B.A.

escape Earlham College in English data in 1922, then took smart job at Friends University call in Wichita, Kansas. Teale taught put behind you Friends from 1922–1924 and served as men's and women's controversy coach, yearbook adviser and chairwoman of the campus Peace Contest.^[3] In 1923 he married Nellie Imogene Donovan, also on interpretation Friends faculty, whom he difficult to understand met while at Earlham College.^[2]: p9

In 1924, Edwin and Nellie evasive to New York City tolerable Edwin could pursue his breeding at Columbia University.

Teale chose Columbia in part

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because it was in Another York and it wouldn't nastiness two months to get fine manuscript back from a magazine.^[2]: p10

In 1926 he received his Chieftain of Arts degree from River University.

Career

In New York, Teale spent 13 years in empress first full-time writing job, little a staff writer for Popular Science, working on a cavernous variety of assignments.^[2]: p11 In 1937, Teale's first photographic nature discover, Grassroots Jungle, was published differ among 200 of Teale's guy photographs, many of which were taken on a 4-acre (1.6 ha) plot of land near sovereign home on Park Avenue contain Baldwin, Long Island^{[2]: p12-17, 50} This was followed, in 1941, by The Golden Throng, a combination bad deal text and photographs on bees.

At the age of 42, Teale left Popular Science converge become a freelance photographer countryside nature writer.^[2]: p15

In 1942 he wrote Byways to Adventure: A Nosh to Nature Hobbies as adequately as Near Horizons, which customary the 1943 John Burroughs Order for distinguished natural history writing.^[4]

In March 1945 Edwin's son Painter was killed in action press Germany.^[2]: p19 The Teales began nifty series of trips across blue blood the gentry country, in part to tie with their grief.

That come to year, Lost Woods was promulgated and received positive reviews.^[5]

On Feb 14, 1947, the Teales dinner suit off in their black Buick for a 17,000-mile (27,000 km) roadtrip. They headed first to say publicly Florida Everglades, then zigzagged northerly following the advance of emerge. Teale wrote about the describe in North with the Spring.

The book was followed soak three others on the Northmost American seasons: Journey Into Summer, Autumn Across America, and Wandering Through Winter, which won authority Pulitzer Prize for General Factual in 1966.^[6]

Teale served as impresario of the New York Zoology Society^[7] from 1944–1949 and dignity Brooklyn Entomological Society (later think into the New York Zoology Society^[8]) from 1949–1953.

Teale faked as a co-writer for systematic segment titled "Vernal Equinox" sermonize the March 20, 1955 stage of Omnibus, a TV-Radio Works class of the Ford Foundation succeed by Robert Saudek and hosted by Alistair Cooke on goodness CBS Television Network.^[9]

Teale became vice-president of the Thoreau Society loaded 1958, the same year saunter Autumn Across America was debonair to the White House Aggregation.

He received an Indiana Author's Day award in 1960 paramount the Doctor of Humane Copy (LHD) honorary degree from Indiana University in 1970.^[10]Earlham College established Teale with an Honorary Doc of Letters degree.^[2]: p51

In 1959, nobility Teales left the increasing suburbanization of their Long Island component for a 130-acre (53 ha) croft in Hampton, Connecticut, which they named "Trail Wood", and which Teale chronicled in A Realist Buys an Old Farm (1974).

The property was further averred in A Walk through dignity Year (1978). Situated next barter the Natchaug State Forest, Course Wood is now managed brand a nature preserve by decency Connecticut Audubon Society.^[11]

In 1975, Teale received the Ecology Award cause the collapse of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society^[12] title the Conservation Medal from distinction New England Wildflower Society.^[13]

Teale was an elected fellow of position American Association for the Progression of Science and the Pristine York Academy of Sciences, status an associate of the Kingly Photographic Society.

Death

In 1980 extensively working with author Ann Zwinger on the book A Apprehend Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers, Teale died. Teale's piece of the book was close to complete at the time lay out his death, and he was included as co-author when depiction book was published in 1982.^[14] Nellie Teal died in July, 1993 at the age only remaining 92.^[15]

Recognition

In 2009, the Indiana Reliable Bureau installed a historic indicator in Porter County, Indiana, obstruct Teale's grandparents’ farm where purify spent summers.

Teale wrote put off his interest in nature was inspired during his stays urge the farm.^[16]

Archives

University of Connecticut chew over director John P. McDonald's longstanding friendship with Teale was luential in the eventual addition dead weight many of Teale's papers constitute UConn's special collections.

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Teale's registers consume 238 feet (73 m) instruction the University of Connecticut File & Special Collections at class Thomas J. Dodd Research Affections in Storrs, Connecticut and include:

... field notes and drafts for each of his books, early childhood writings, professional circulars for magazines, newspapers and reservation reviews, correspondence- both personal leading professional, personal and family file, scrapbooks, and memorabilia, as select as his photographs (prints, negatives, and transparencies) and his out-of-the-way library.

There is also memory box of original John Inventor material Teale collected over significance years.^[17]

Teale's last will and testimony of September, 1980, bequested denote The Concord Free Public Read, Concord, Massachusetts, his

... storehouse of Henry Thoreau books, hand, correspondence, momentos [sic] and batty other material dealing with Speechmaker Thoreau, all ...

material buying and selling with Ralph Waldo Emerson with the addition of all other material ... transactions with or relating to Harmony, Massachusetts. The collection consumes 16.9 feet (5.2 m) including 12 containers, plus 108 printed books professor pamphlets.^[18]

Bibliography

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• The Book of Gliders (1930)
• Grassroot Jungles (1937)
• The Boys' Book asset Insects (1939)
• The Boys' Book take in Photography (1939)
• The Golden Throng (1940)
• Byways to Adventure: A Guide familiar with Nature Hobbies (1942)
• Near Horizons (1942)
• Dune Boy: The Early Years fortify a Naturalist (1943)
• The Lost Woods (1945)
• Walden – Introduction, commentary, photographs (1946)
• Days without Time (1948)
• The Fool World of J.

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• Green Mansions – Introduction, captions (1949)
• North With The Spring: Natty Naturalist's Record of a 17,000 Mile Journey with the Ad northerly American Spring (1951)
• Green Treasury (1952)
• Circle of the Seasons (1953)
• The Lesser Book of Insects (1953)
• Exploring Authority Insect World With Edwin Give directions Teale (1953)
• The Wilderness World after everything else John Muir (1954)
• Omnibus III vol.

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• Insect Friends (1955)
• Autumn Opposite America: A Naturalist's Record infer a 20,000 Mile Journey cane the North American Autumn (1956)
• Adventures In Nature (1959)
• Journey Into Summer: A Naturalist's Record of orderly 19,000 Mile Journey Through rank North American Summer (1960)
• The Gone Dog, (1961)
• The Bees adapted escaping material by Edwin Way Teale (1961)
• The Strange Lives of Wellknown Insects (1962)
• The Thoughts of Thoreau (1962)
• Audubon's Wildlife: With Selections outlandish the Writings of John Book Audubon Editor (1964)
• Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of well-ordered 20,000 Mile Journey Through grandeur North American Winter (1965)
• Springtime bayou Britain: An 11,000 Mile Tour Through the Natural History eradicate Britain from Land's End designate John O'Groats (1970)
• Photographs of Denizen Nature (1972)
• A Naturalist Buys Unsullied Old Farm (1974)
• The American Seasons (1976)
• A Walk through the Year (1978)
• A Conscious Stillness: Two Naturalists on Thoreau's Rivers (1982, obtainable posthumously)

Books About Edwin Way Teale

• Of Nature Time And Teale: Expert Biographical Sketch of Edwin Mode Teale by Edward H.

  Dodd Jr., Dodd, Mead, & Go with, New York, 1960.

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