Stanley Crawford
American writer and farmer (1937–2024)
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Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.[1] His nine 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]
Stanley Crawford | |
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| Born | 1937 |
| Died | (aged 86) Dixon, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago University of Paris |
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Life and career
Crawford was born in 1937 and grew up in a suburb of San Diego. He was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne in Paris. He met his Australian wife Rose Mary, a former reporter and publicist, in Crete in 1967 after he sold the film rights to his novel Gascoyne for $35,000 and had moved to the Island to write. They left Crete to spend six months in Ireland, during which their son Adam was born.[3]
The couple moved from San Francisco to Dixon, New Mexico in 1969, where they owned El Bosque, a garlic farm. Their daughter Kate was born around that time.[3] Crawford served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.[4]
Crawford died of cancer in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.[5][6]
Works
- Crawford, Stanley (1966). Gascoyne. New York: Putnam. OCLC 1395235.
- Reissued by Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-1468307962.
- Crawford, Stanley (1968). Travel Notes (from here—to there). Simon & Schuster. OCLC 437091.
- Reissued by Calamari Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-940853-02-4.
- 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.
- Reissued by University of New Mexico Press, 1993. ISBN 0826314457.
- 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