Franklin Burroughs

Franklin Burroughs (born March 7, 1942) is an American author of nonfiction.

Biography Burroughs holds a B.A. in English from Sewanee: The University of the South and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

He is the Harrison King McCann Research Professor of the English Language Emeritus at Bowdoin College. He retired from teaching in 2002. He writes primarily about the people and natural environments in and around Conway, South Carolina where he was raised, and Bowdoinham, Maine, where he has lived his adult life.

Awards National Endowment for the Arts fellowship "Compression Wood" was anthologized in The Best American Essays in 1999, edited by Edward Hoagland and Robert Atwan. Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay received the 2009 John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing.

Books

Horry and the Waccamaw (1992). W. W. Norton & Company. . The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country (1998). University of Georgia Press.

Billy Watson's Croker Sack (1991). University of Georgia Press. Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay (2006). Tilbury House Publishers. .