Ellen Meloy

Ellen Meloy (December 111946 – November 4, 2004) was an American writer.

She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for "The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit" (2003), a moving and humorous exploration of growing up deprived of a swimming pool in the southwest and the draining of wildlife from the southwest. Meloy was a rare breed of writer--outrageously funnyWho|date=October 2007 and utterly focused in her commitment to the environmental movement. She was drawn to the scrappy and mischievousWho|date=October 2007, as is reflected in her "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River." Self-destruction was another interest of hers, as she plotted out the map of her known universe plus the alarmingly flimsy protectionsWho|date=October 2007 from the remnants of the Manhattan Project in "The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest." Her fascination with and love of desert bighorn sheep were evident in her last book, "Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild", which also provides glimpses of her own coming to terms with mortalityWho|date=October 2007. She died in Bluff, Utah.

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* [http://www.ellenmeloy.com Official website]