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Stanley Crawford

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Stanley Crawford
Born1937 (1937)
Died (aged 86)
Dixon, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • farmer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
University of Paris
Notable awardsWestern States Book Award (1988)

Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.[1] His novels include, among others, Travel Notes (1967), The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine (1972), Some Instructions (1978), and Petroleum Man (2005). His nonfiction works include A Garlic Testament (1992), a biography of life on his farm in Dixon, New Mexico. Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988) was the winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.[2]

Biography

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Crawford was born in 1937, and was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne. He moved to Dixon, New Mexico in 1970, where he owned El Bosque, a garlic farm,[3] and served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.[4] Crawford died in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.[5]

Works

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  • Crawford, Stanley (1966). Gascoyne. New York: Putnam. OCLC 1395235.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1968). Travel Notes (from here—to there). Simon & Schuster. OCLC 437091.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1972). The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1564785122.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1978). Some Instructions. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 0916583155.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1988). Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826309992.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1998). A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826325319.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2003). The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826328571.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2005). Petroleum Man. Penguin. ISBN 978-1468307979.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2015). Seed. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573661836.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2016). Intimacy. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573660549.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2017). Village: a novel. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652950.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2019). The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652059

References

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  1. ^ "Stanley G. Crawford". Lannan.org. Lannan Foundation. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico". Kirkus. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Raver, Ann (July 13, 2011). "Secrets of a Garlic Grower". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Mora, Joseph (February 7, 2014). "Arriving in Style: The Slow, Deliberate Odyssey of Stanley Crawford and the Santa Fe Farmer's Market". Edible. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  5. ^ "New Mexico author and garlic farmer Stanley Crawford dies at 86". Albuquerque Journal. January 30, 2024. Retrieved February 5, 2024.

Further reading

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Interviews

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Reviews

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Gascoyne
Travel Notes
Petroleum Man
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