Stanley Crawford Explained

Stanley Crawford
Death Place:	Dixon, New Mexico, U.S.
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	University of Chicago University of Paris
Awards:	Western States Book Award (1988)

Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.^[1] His 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]

Biography

Crawford was born in 1937, and was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne. He moved to Dixon, New Mexico in 1970, where he owned El Bosque, a garlic farm,^[3] and served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.^[4] Crawford died in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.^[5]

Works

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

Further reading

• Book: Bates, Sarah F. . Searching Out the Headwaters: Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy . 1993 . Island Press . 978-1-55963-218-8 . 22, 50–52 .
• Book: Powers, Bill . Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin off the Grid & Beyond The American Dream . 2010 . New World Library . 978-1-57731-898-9. 85–94.
• Book: Rivera, José A. . Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest . 1998 . University of New Mexico Press . 978-0-8263-1858-9 . 175–176.

Interviews

• Web site: Sean P. . Carroll . An Interview with Stanley Crawford . . September 2008 . 2015-04-29.
• News: Gail . Guengerich . Leaves and Asphalt: Stanley Crawford and the center of the universe . . 22 . 14 . April 4–10, 2013 . 2015-04-29.
• Web site: Stephen . Sparks . Stanley Crawford . Bomb . May 20, 2014 . 2015-04-29.
• Web site: Deb Olin . Unferth . Interview with Stanley Crawford . . September 9, 2008 . 2015-04-29.
• Web site: Alex . Young . An Interview with Stanley Crawford . NewWest.net . April 3, 2009 . August Publications . 2015-04-29.

Reviews

Gascoyne

• News: Letters at 3AM: The return of Gascoyne . Michael . Ventura . . November 25, 2005 . 2015-04-29.

Travel Notes

• News: Tobias Carroll on Travel Notes: The Ever-Shifting Status . Los Angeles Review of Books . Tobias . Carroll . April 2, 2014 . 2015-04-29.
• Web site: Travel Notes (From here — to there) – Stanley Crawford . Michael . Jauchen . Full Stop . April 3, 2014 . 2015-04-29.

Petroleum Man

• Stanley Crawford. Petroleum Man. (Book review) . https://web.archive.org/web/20150329055651/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-152182432.html . dead . March 29, 2015 . The Review of Contemporary Fiction . June 22, 2006 . Riker . Martin.
• Bedtime Stories from the Business World . Peter C. . Warzel . American Book Review . 26 . 5 . July–August 2005.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Stanley G. Crawford . Lannan.org . Lannan Foundation . 2015-04-29.
2. Web site: Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico . Kirkus . 2015-04-29.
3. News: Raver . Ann . Secrets of a Garlic Grower . . July 13, 2011 . 2015-04-29.
4. Web site: Mora . Joseph . Arriving in Style: The Slow, Deliberate Odyssey of Stanley Crawford and the Santa Fe Farmer's Market . Edible . February 7, 2014 . February 24, 2014.
5. News: New Mexico author and garlic farmer Stanley Crawford dies at 86 . 5 February 2024 . Albuquerque Journal . 30 January 2024.