Craig Childs
How to Drink Water from a Stone
Benefiting the Library Endowment for Warner College of Natural Resources
Craig Childs has spent entire winters walking the canyons of Utah, and has vanished without a trace into dune seas and appallingly vast North American deserts. He has worked as a columnist for the LA Times and appears occasionally as a commentator for National Public Radio´s Morning Edition. Author of eleven books that combine science and wilderness travel, he is winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Spirit of the West Literary Achievement Award, given to a writer whose body of work captures the unique spirit of the American West. He is a native of Arizona and has spent much of his life in the Southwest where he, his wife, and their young son live in western Colorado…sometimes. Childs was also a river guide at the age of eighteen. By twenty-one he was hitchiking the coast of British Columbia on bush planes. He has worked as a field instructor for Prescott College, an editor of a small mountain newspaper, a jazz and symphony performer on trombone, a beer bottler, and a gas station attendant (not necessarily in that order).
Childs has written for Outside, Audubon, Sierra, Backpacker, Arizona Highways, and High Country News. He has a master´s degree in Desert Studies from Prescott College in Arizona, where he has taught as an adjunct professor in field sciences.
Recommended Reading:
- The Secret Knowledge of Water by Craig Childs
- The Soul of Nowhere by Craig Childs
- The Way Out by Craig Childs
- Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
- Run River Run by Ann Zwinger
- The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Erlich
- The Meadow by James Galvin
- Titles by Mary Oliver