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Jennifer Jaye Price^[1] (born 1960/1961) is an American writer and artist. She is author of Flight Maps (2000) and Stop Saving the Planet! (2021) and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow.

Born1960 or 1961 (age 64–65)

Occupations

Writer
artist

Notable work

- Flight Maps
- Stop Saving the Planet!

AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2005)

Quick facts Born, Occupations ...

Jenny Price
Giving a tour of the Los Angeles River in 2011
Born	1960 or 1961 (age 64–65)
Occupations	Writer artist
Notable work	Flight Maps Stop Saving the Planet!
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship (2005)


Academic background
Alma mater	Princeton University Yale University
Thesis	Flight Maps: Encounters with Nature in Modern American Culture (1998)

Biography

Jenny Price was born in 1960 or 1961 and is from St. Louis.^[2] Her father was an attorney involved in the civil rights movement, defending people blacklisted by McCarthyism.^[2] She obtained her BA in biology from Princeton University in 1985.^[3] As she noted in a 2020 interview, she "discovered history my last semester in college very accidentally", and discovered her own self-described nature as a "born historian".^[4] She later attended Yale University for her graduate studies, where she studied with William Cronon^[4] and obtained a PhD in history in 1998.^[3] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Flight Maps: Encounters with Nature in Modern American Culture.^[1]

In 2000, she published Flight Maps, a book on American culture's history with nature.^[5] She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow^[6] and a 2013 Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellow.^[7] She authored a second book, Stop Saving the Planet!, focused on greenwashing and released by W. W. Norton & Company in 2021.^[8]

She co-founded the public art collectives LA Urban Rangers and St. Louis Division,^[9] and as part of the former took people to safari-like gatherings at public beaches in the local area.^[4] She co-developed an app with Escape Apps to help find public access points to public beaches in Malibu, California.^[2] She has worked as a research fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.^[10]

After living in Los Angeles,^[4] she moved back to her native St. Louis in 2016.^[9]

Bibliography

Flight Maps (2000)^[a]
Stop Saving the Planet! (2021)

Notes

[a]
Reviews of this book:^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]^[21]^[22]

References

[1]
"Dissertations by year, 1990-1999". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[2]
"Beach access on the phone". The Los Angeles Times. May 27, 2013. p. A13 – via Newspapers.com.
[3]
"CV of JENNY PRICE" (PDF). Jenny Price. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[4]
Radney, Imani (March 23, 2020). "Public Thinker: Jenny Price on Refusing to Save the Planet". Public Books. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[5]
Price, Jennifer (June 27, 2017). FLIGHT MAPS. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02486-5. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
[6]
"Jennifer Price". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[7]
"Jenny Price". Society of Fellows. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[8]
"Stop Saving the Planet!". wwnorton.com. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[9]
"About / Contact". Jenny Price. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[10]
"Jenny Price". University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
[11]
Abbott, Charlotte; Bing, Jonathan; Zaleski, Jeff; Gediman, Paul (April 19, 1999). "Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 246, no. 16. p. 52. ProQuest 197019890.
[12]
Farber, Paul Lawrence (2001). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Isis. 92 (1): 235. doi:10.1086/385164. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 237451.
[13]
Johnson, Amy Edith (June 27, 1999). "Natural Mystic". Los Angeles Times. p. 9. ProQuest 421518562.
[14]
"FLIGHT MAPS: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Kirkus Reviews. No. 7. April 1, 1999. ProQuest 917026480.
[15]
Kroll, Gary (2001). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America; Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 76 (3): 380–382. doi:10.1086/394073. ISSN 0033-5770. JSTOR 2664930.
[16]
Lucas, Susan M. (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 7 (2): 289–290. doi:10.1093/isle/7.2.289. ISSN 1076-0962. JSTOR 44085810.
[17]
Maddux, Carolyn (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". The Antioch Review. 58 (2): 240. doi:10.2307/4613999. ISSN 0003-5769. JSTOR 4613999.
[18]
Marling, Karal Ann (June 6, 1999). "The way of the dodo". New York Times Book Review. p. 7/44:3. ProQuest 217293219.
[19]
Ross, Tina (1999). "Absorbing nature". E: The Environmental Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 5. p. 61. ProQuest 229131518.
[20]
Steinberg, Ted (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". The Journal of American History. 87 (3): 1108–1109. doi:10.2307/2675409. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2675409.
[21]
West, Elliott (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Environmental History. 5 (3): 407–408. doi:10.2307/3985484. ISSN 1084-5453. JSTOR 3985484.
[22]
Wright, Scott D. (1999). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Human Ecology Review. 6 (2): 129–130. ISSN 1074-4827. JSTOR 24707074.

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