Chip Rawlins Explained

Chip Rawlins (born 1949) is an American writer and the co-author of The Complete Walker IV with Colin Fletcher. He also publishes under the name C. L. Rawlins .^[1] Rawlins is a non-fiction writer, poet, outdoor guide, and instructor. Previous jobs include: firefighter, science editor, and field hydrologist.

Biography

Rawlins was born in 1949, in Laramie, Wyoming.^{[2] [3]} He went to Utah State University and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.^[4] He lives in Laramie, where he has served as president of the Wyoming Outdoor Council and on the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He has also lived in New Zealand .^[5]

Books

• A Ceremony on Bare Ground (1985)
• Sky's Witness: A year in the Wind River Range (Henry Holt, 1993)
• Broken Country: Mountains and Memory (Henry Holt, 1996)
• In Gravity National Park (University of Nevada, 1998)
• The Complete Walker IV (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)

Awards

• USFS National Primitive Skills Award
• 1999 Poetry Prize from the Mountain and Plains Booksellers Association
• Stegner Fellowship^[6]

External links

• Wyoming Authors Wiki Entry

Notes and References

1. Web site: Naturalist characters in fiction. ASLE - The Association for the Study of Literature & Environment. https://web.archive.org/web/20080522100633/http://www.asle.umn.edu/archive/biblios/fictionalnat.txt. 22 May 2008.
2. News: Marston. Betsy. Dear Friends. High Country News. 20 February 1995.
3. Encyclopedia: Rawlins, C. L. Wyoming Authors Wiki. https://web.archive.org/web/20080501215010/http://wiki.wyomingauthors.org/C%2BL%2BRawlins. 1 May 2008. dead.
4. Web site: About the Authors: Colin Fletcher and C. L. Rawlins. Random House.
5. News: Debevoise. Nancy. Farewell to Chip Rawlins & Darrel Short. Frontline Newsletter. Wyoming Outdoor Council. https://web.archive.org/web/20081013010559/http://www.wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org/news/newsletter/docs/2001d/farewell.php. 13 October 2008.
6. Web site: Stegner Fellowship – Complete List of Stegner Fellows. Creative Writing Program. Stanford University. 2016-06-14. 2018-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311043037/http://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship-complete-list-of-stegner-fellows. dead.