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Ellen Meloy (June 21, 1946, Pasadena, California – November 4, 2004, Bluff, Utah<ref name="death">Template:Cite news </ref>) was an American nature writer.

LifeEdit

She was born Ellen Louise Ditzler in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Goucher College with a degree in art, and from the University of Montana with a master's degree in environmental studies.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She married her husband Mark Meloy, a river ranger, in 1985.<ref>"Remembering Ellen Meloy", High Desert Journal, April 2005, Elizabeth Grossman Template:Webarchive</ref> Her nephew is the musician and writer Colin Meloy and her niece is the writer Maile Meloy.

A prize bearing Meloy's name is presented annually by The Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

AwardsEdit

  • 1997 Whiting Award
  • 2003 Pulitzer Prize nomination for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit (2003)
  • 2007 John Burroughs Medal Award <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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