Stanley Crawford

Stanley Crawford (born 1937) is 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 owns El Bosque, a garlic farm,[3] and served for a time as the President of the Sante Fe Area Farmers' Market.[4]

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. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652950.
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References
  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. 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.

Further reading
  • Bates, Sarah F. (1993). Searching Out the Headwaters: Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy. Island Press. pp. 22, 50–52. ISBN 978-1-55963-218-8.
  • Powers, Bill (2010). Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin off the Grid & Beyond The American Dream. New World Library. pp. 85–94. ISBN 978-1-57731-898-9.
  • 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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Petroleum Man
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