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Daniel Quinn, writer, and author of best selling philosophical novel Ishmael (1992), shares his home library with Aaron Wissner of Local Future in a home visit. In 1991, Ishmael won the $500,000 [Ted] Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best unpublished work of fiction offering creative and positive solutions to global problems. Wissner traveled to Houston to spend three days interviewing Daniel Quinn, August 17-19, 2012, in lieu of Daniel traveling to Michigan for Aaron's Local Future conference.
About Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn (1935-2018) grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Prep in 1953. He studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, cum laud, in 1957.
During a twenty-year career in educational and consumer publishing in Chicago, he served as Biography and Fine Arts editor at the American Peoples Encyclopedia, managing editor of the Greater Cleveland Mathematics Program (Science Research Associates), head of the mathematics department at Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Executive Editor of Fuller & Dees Publishing (a division of the Times Mirror Corporation) and Editorial Director of the Society for Visual Education (a division of the Singer Corporation).
Mr. Quinn is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and has been made available in more than 25 languages. Throughout the U.S. and Canada and in other countries as well, Ishmael is used as a text in a broad range of classes that include anthropology, ecology, history, literature, philosophy, ethics, biology, and psychology, at age levels from middle school through graduate level.
He followed Ishmael with an autobiography, Providence (1994), The Story Of B (1996), a novel that continues the philosophical and religious exploration begun in Ishmael; and My Ishmael: A Sequel (1997), in which it’s learned that, unbeknownst to the narrator of Ishmael, Ishmael was working with another pupil, a twelve-year-old girl.
For more biography, visit this page:
ishmael.org/daniel-quinn/about/formal-daniel-quinn-biography
Links about Daniel Quinn
ishmael.org
rmqabstracts.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_culture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Race
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Life
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Tomorrow_Fellowship_Award
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ishmael
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Civilization
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence:_The_Story_of_a_Fifty-Year_Vision_Quest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dachau
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamer_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_They_Give_You_Lined_Paper,_Write_Sideways
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Biography
ishmael.org/books
(1988) Dreamer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 9781481850063
(1992) Ishmael, Bantam, ISBN 0553375407
(1996) The Story of B, Bantam, ISBN 0553379011
(1996) Providence: The Story of a 50 Year Vision Quest (autobiography), Bantam, ISBN 0553375490
(1997) My Ishmael, Bantam, ISBN 0553379658
(1997) A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Tom Whalen), Bantam, ISBN 0553379798
(1999) An Animist Testament (audio cassette of Quinn reading The Tales of Adam and The Book of the Damned)
(2000) Beyond Civilization, Broadway Books, ISBN 0609805363
(2001) The Man Who Grew Young (graphic novel with Tim Eldred), Context, ISBN 1893956172
(2001) After Dachau, Steerforth, ISBN 1581952155
(2002) The Holy, Steerforth, ISBN 1581952147
(2005) Tales of Adam, Steerforth, ISBN 1586420747
(2006) Work, Work, Work, Steerforth, ISBN
(2007) If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways, Steerforth, ISBN 1586421263
(2010) Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. (chapter) Nelson, Michael P. and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds.). Trinity University Press, ISBN 9781595340665
(2012) At Woomeroo, CreateSpace, ISBN 1477599975
(2014) The Invisibility of Success, CreateSpace, ISBN 1494930935
(2014)The Teachings, CreateSpace, ISBN 1502356155
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
aaronwissner.com
facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
First published on the Internet: 20200520 UTC Aaron Wayne Wissner
Daniel Quinn, writer, and author of best selling philosophical novel Ishmael (1992), shares his home library with Aaron Wissner of Local Future in a home visit. In 1991, Ishmael won the $500,000 [Ted] Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best unpublished work of fiction offering creative and positive solutions to global problems. Wissner traveled to Houston to spend three days interviewing Daniel Quinn, August 17-19, 2012, in lieu of Daniel traveling to Michigan for Aaron's Local Future conference.
About Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn (1935-2018) grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Prep in 1953. He studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor’s degree in English, cum laud, in 1957.
During a twenty-year career in educational and consumer publishing in Chicago, he served as Biography and Fine Arts editor at the American Peoples Encyclopedia, managing editor of the Greater Cleveland Mathematics Program (Science Research Associates), head of the mathematics department at Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation, Executive Editor of Fuller & Dees Publishing (a division of the Times Mirror Corporation) and Editorial Director of the Society for Visual Education (a division of the Singer Corporation).
Mr. Quinn is best known as the author of Ishmael, the novel that in 1991 won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship, established to encourage authors to seek “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” Ishmael has been in print continuously since its publication in 1992 and has been made available in more than 25 languages. Throughout the U.S. and Canada and in other countries as well, Ishmael is used as a text in a broad range of classes that include anthropology, ecology, history, literature, philosophy, ethics, biology, and psychology, at age levels from middle school through graduate level.
He followed Ishmael with an autobiography, Providence (1994), The Story Of B (1996), a novel that continues the philosophical and religious exploration begun in Ishmael; and My Ishmael: A Sequel (1997), in which it’s learned that, unbeknownst to the narrator of Ishmael, Ishmael was working with another pupil, a twelve-year-old girl.
For more biography, visit this page:
ishmael.org/daniel-quinn/about/formal-daniel-quinn-biography
Links about Daniel Quinn
ishmael.org
rmqabstracts.com
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Quinn
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_culture
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Race
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Life
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Tomorrow_Fellowship_Award
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishmael_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_B
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ishmael
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Civilization
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence:_The_Story_of_a_Fifty-Year_Vision_Quest
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Dachau
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamer_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_They_Give_You_Lined_Paper,_Write_Sideways
friendsofishmael.org
readishmael.com
Biography
ishmael.org/books
(1988) Dreamer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 9781481850063
(1992) Ishmael, Bantam, ISBN 0553375407
(1996) The Story of B, Bantam, ISBN 0553379011
(1996) Providence: The Story of a 50 Year Vision Quest (autobiography), Bantam, ISBN 0553375490
(1997) My Ishmael, Bantam, ISBN 0553379658
(1997) A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife (with Tom Whalen), Bantam, ISBN 0553379798
(1999) An Animist Testament (audio cassette of Quinn reading The Tales of Adam and The Book of the Damned)
(2000) Beyond Civilization, Broadway Books, ISBN 0609805363
(2001) The Man Who Grew Young (graphic novel with Tim Eldred), Context, ISBN 1893956172
(2001) After Dachau, Steerforth, ISBN 1581952155
(2002) The Holy, Steerforth, ISBN 1581952147
(2005) Tales of Adam, Steerforth, ISBN 1586420747
(2006) Work, Work, Work, Steerforth, ISBN
(2007) If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways, Steerforth, ISBN 1586421263
(2010) Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril. (chapter) Nelson, Michael P. and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds.). Trinity University Press, ISBN 9781595340665
(2012) At Woomeroo, CreateSpace, ISBN 1477599975
(2014) The Invisibility of Success, CreateSpace, ISBN 1494930935
(2014)The Teachings, CreateSpace, ISBN 1502356155
About Aaron Wissner
Aaron Wayne Wissner is the founder of Local Future, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt educational non-profit and a teacher of 25+ years. His mission is to help humans to have accurate, truthful, and relevant information so they can survive and thrive, no matter what the future holds.
aaronwissner.com
facebook.com/aaron.wissner.9
youtube.com/user/newculture
lifeishnowish.blogspot.com
First published on the Internet: 20200520 UTC Aaron Wayne Wissner
