![]() Their life together was shaped by river seasons. She and her husband Mark, a river ranger, were married in 1985. ![]() When she wrote about floating a desert river you are there with her, gazing open-mouthed at the astounding scenery, laughing and whooping through the rapids, and wishing you never had to leave.Įllen was born in California in 1946, graduated from high school in England, and studied in France and Italy, before earning a degree in art from Goucher College in Maryland, and later a masters in environmental studies from the University of Montana. ![]() It is playful and profound but never self-important. Ellen's work has a searing sense of ecological, social and political realities, and an enormous appreciation for the details of natural history. Her writing is filled with exuberant and exquisitely vivid pictures of the charismatic and challenging amazement that is the desert, and a sharp and sly sense of irony and refreshingly irreverent humor. ![]() ![]() The landscape Ellen loved came to life in her prose-in her books: Raven's Exile, The Last Cheater's Waltz and The Anthropology of Turquoise (which won the Utah Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize) and in her essays. On Novemwhen Ellen Meloy died suddenly at her home in Bluff, Utah on the banks of the San Juan River, the desert lost one of its most passionate and eloquent advocates. ![]()
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