Donovan Hohn
Donovan Hohn | |
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| Born | May 29, 1972 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Education | Oberlin College Boston University (MA) University of Michigan (MFA) |
| Notable awards | Whiting Award (2008) |
Donovan Hohn (born May 29, 1972 San Francisco) is an American author, essayist, and editor.
Life
[edit | edit source]Donovan Hohn is the author of Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them, the tale of the Friendly Floatees. He was raised in San Francisco. He graduated from Oberlin College, from Boston University with an MA, and from University of Michigan, with an MFA.[1]
A former English teacher and a former senior editor of Harper's Magazine, he was also the features editor of GQ. His work has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Magazine,[2] Outside,[3] and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2.[4]
Awards
[edit | edit source]- 2013 Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Journalism[5]
- 2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award (runner-up) in General nonfiction[6]
- 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
- 2008 Whiting Award
- 2004 Hopwood Award for Essay
- 2003 Hopwood Award for Poetry
Works
[edit | edit source]Books
[edit | edit source]- Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them (2011)
Essays
[edit | edit source]- "A Romance of Rust", Harper's (January 2005)
- "Moby-Duck", Harper's (January 2007)
- "Falling", Harper's (April 2008)
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- "Monsterwellen", Outside Magazine (Jan. 2009)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Hohn profile, Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation website. Accessed Dec. 21, 2012.
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- ^ Hohn, Donovan. "Monsterwellen," Archived February 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Outside (Jan. 16, 2009).
- ^ Hohn profile, Creative Nonfiction website. Accessed Dec. 22, 2012.
- ^ Press release. "U-M names Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellows," University of Michigan News Service (May 8, 2012).
- ^ Press release. "2013 PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award"
External links
[edit | edit source]- Official website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- New York Times review of Moby-Duck
- Interview on The New Yorker's "Book Bench"
- Interview on NPR's "Fresh Air"
- "Back story," Gawker
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