Gordon Grice

Gordon Grice

Gordon Grice (born 1965, Guymon, Oklahoma) is an American nature writer and essayist.

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Life

Grice grew up in rural Oklahoma, a setting that has figured in much of his writing. He graduated from Oklahoma State University with a BA in English and the University of Arkansas with an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. He is married and has three children.[1] He has taught creative writing for California Institute of the Arts and the UCLA Extension Writers' Program.[2]

He is the author of two nonfiction books. The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators (1998) was listed among the Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Books of the Year and the New York Public Library's 25 Books to Remember for 1998. Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals was published by Dial Press in the US in 2010 and as The Book of Deadly Animals by Penguin Books in the UK the following year. Critic Mark Dery described his work thus: "Fascinated by the alien ways of the nonhuman world, Grice combines the sardonic deadpan of noir fiction with the best naturalists' unsentimental scrutiny of animal behavior and a rural midwesterner's applied knowledge of the predator-prey relationship. A Jean-Henri Fabre for literati who drive pickups with rifle racks."[3]

Grice has also published poetry, fiction, essays, and articles. His work has appeared in Harper's,[4] The New Yorker,,[5] Discover,[6] Popular Science,[7] and others.[8]

Awards

  • 1999 Whiting Writers' Award
  • "The White Cat" (short story) chosen for Best of the 'Net 2006[9]
  • Finalist for the PEN Center West Book Awards in research nonfiction for 1999

Works

  • The Red Hourglass: Lives of the Predators. Delacorte Press. 1998. ISBN 9780385318877. 
  • Deadly Kingdom: The Book of Dangerous Animals. The Dial Press. May 18, 2010. ISBN 9780385335621. 

Anthologies

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