Fiction. "Others have observed the natural man in the American condition before, but nobody has done it with such good humor. Ed McClanahan's good humor both sharpens his eye and gentles his vision. I don't know where else, now, you would find workmanship that is at once so meticulous and so exuberant" - Wendell Berry. Read MoreOffer Count: 9 rows · Ed McClanahan. Edward Poage McClanahan was born in Brooksville, Kentucky in to Edward Leroy /5. · Ed McClanahan, one of Kentucky’s most vibrant, outspoken, and humorous contributors to the world of modern literature, prefaces his major work, “The Natural Man,” with a quote from James Fennimore Cooper’s “The Prairie ”. “You are of the class, mammalian; order, primates; genus, homo; species, Kentucky.”. In the Signature series profile of this notoriously wild man of letters, Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
Ed McClanahan's good humor both sharpens his eye and gentles his vision. I don't know where else, now, you would find workmanship McClanahan is right up there with one of the greatest humorists of modern times, Dave Barry, and that's saying a lot. After multiple readings of The Natural Man, I still. Ed McClanahan has taught English and creative writing at Oregon State University, Stanford University, the University of Montana, the University of Kentucky, and Northern Kentucky University. His books include The Natural Man, Famous People I Have Known, A Congress of Wonders, and My Vita. Ed McClanahan is the author of The Natural Man, Famous People I Have Known, and several other books. In , he edited Spit in the Ocean #7: All About Kesey, a tribute issue of his late friend Ken Kesey's self-published magazine. O the Clear Moment, a "fictionalized memoir.
Along with contemporary authors Wendell Berry, James Baker Hall, Bobbie Ann Mason and fellow Prankster Gurney Norman, McClanahan is considered a member of the "Fab Five" group of Kentucky writers. Initially conceived in , The Natural Man was finally published in to great acclaim. Publications. Fiction. "Others have observed the natural man in the American condition before, but nobody has done it with such good humor. Ed McClanahan's good humor both sharpens his eye and gentles his vision. I don't know where else, now, you would find workmanship that is at once so meticulous and so exuberant" - Wendell Berry. Read More. Additional Physical Format: Online version: McClanahan, Ed. Natural man. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, (OCoLC) Material Type: Fiction.
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