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Rick Bass

Fiction writer, nature writer, activist · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1958 · age 68

Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist. He has a Bachelor of Science in geology with a focus in Wildlife from Utah State University. Right after he graduated, he interned for one year as a Wildlife Biologist at the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Arkansas.

Rick Bass is read about 33 times a day, in 6 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 August 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

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Awards

Prix Laure Bataillon2015
Guggenheim Fellowship

About this person

He then went onto working as an oil and gas geologist and consultant before becoming a writer and teacher. He has worked across the United States at various universities: University of Texas at Austin, Beloit College, University of Montana, Pacific University, Montana State University, Iowa State University. He teaches at the Stonecoast MFA low-residency program in Maine. He has done many workshops and lectures on writing and wildlife throughout his career. Texas Tech University, Texas State University, and University of Texas at Austin have collections of his written work.

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United States
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
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Living
Dates
Born 1958 · age 68

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