Edward Hoagland is an author best known for his nature and travel writing. Hoagland joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the summers of 1951 and 1952. He helped to tend the big cats and later sold a novel about this experience, Cat Man , before graduating from Harvard in 1954. After serving two years in the Army, he published The Circle Home , a novel about boxing, before going on the first of nine trips to Alaska and British Columbia. During the 1970s, he made the first two of his five trips to Africa. After receiving two Guggenheim Fellowships, he was elected to the... American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. He has taught at The New School, Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, CUNY, the University of Iowa, U.C. Davis, Columbia University, Beloit College, and Brown. In 2005, Hoagland retired from a teaching position at Bennington College in Vermont. Since 1968, he has focused most of his energies on Montaigne-type essays.
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| Birthdate: | December 21, 1932 |
| Birthplace: | New York |
| Age: | 79 |