Stanley Crawford

Stanley Crawford
Born1937 (1937)
Died (aged 86)
Dixon, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation
  • Writer
  • farmer
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
University of Paris
Notable awardsWestern States Book Award (1988)

Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.[1] His nine novels include, among others, Travel Notes (1967), The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine (1972), Some Instructions (1978), and Petroleum Man (2005). His nonfiction works include A Garlic Testament (1992), a biography of life on his farm in Dixon, New Mexico. Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988) was the winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.[2]

Life and career

Crawford was born in 1937 and grew up in a suburb of San Diego. He was educated at the University of Michigan and the Sorbonne in Paris. He met his Australian wife Rose Mary, a former reporter and publicist, in Crete in 1967 after he sold the film rights to his novel Gascoyne for $35,000 and had moved to the Island to write. They left Crete to spend six months in Ireland, during which their son Adam was born.[3]

The couple moved from San Francisco to Dixon, New Mexico in 1969, where they owned El Bosque, a garlic farm. Their daughter Kate was born around that time.[3] Crawford served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.[4]

Crawford died of cancer in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.[5][6]

Works

  • Crawford, Stanley (1966). Gascoyne. New York: Putnam. OCLC 1395235.
    • Reissued by Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-1468307962.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1968). Travel Notes (from here—to there). Simon & Schuster. OCLC 437091.
    • Reissued by Calamari Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-940853-02-4.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1972). The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1564785122.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1978). Some Instructions. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 0916583155.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1988). Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826309992.
    • Reissued by University of New Mexico Press, 1993. ISBN 0826314457.
  • Crawford, Stanley (1998). A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826325319.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2003). The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826328571.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2005). Petroleum Man. Penguin. ISBN 978-1468307979.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2015). Seed. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573661836.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2016). Intimacy. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573660549.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2017). Village: a novel. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652950.
  • Crawford, Stanley (2019). The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652059

References

Notes

  1. ^ "Stanley G. Crawford". Lannan.org. Lannan Foundation. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  2. ^ "Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico". Kirkus. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  3. ^ a b Raver, Ann (July 13, 2011). "Secrets of a Garlic Grower". The New York Times. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Mora, Joseph (February 7, 2014). "Arriving in Style: The Slow, Deliberate Odyssey of Stanley Crawford and the Santa Fe Farmer's Market". Edible. Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  5. ^ "New Mexico author and garlic farmer Stanley Crawford dies at 86". Albuquerque Journal. January 30, 2024. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
  6. ^ Young, Alex Trimble (March 25, 2024) "Writer, Farmer, Literary Misfit: In Memory of the Late Stanley Crawford" Lit Hub

Further reading

  • Rivera, José A. (1998). Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN 978-0-8263-1858-9.
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