Stanley G. Crawford

Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer. His nine novels include, among others, Travel Notes, 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.

Life and career Crawford was born in 1937 and grew up in a suburb of San Diego. He was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne in Paris. He met his Australian wife Rose Mary, a former reporter and publicist, in Crete in 1967 after he sold the film rights to his novel Gascoyne for $35,000 and had moved to the Island to write. They left Crete to spend six months in Ireland, during which their son Adam was born. Crawford served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.

Crawford died of cancer in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.

Works

Reissued by Penguin, 2005. .

Reissued by Calamari Press, 2014. .

Reissued by University of New Mexico Press, 1993. .

Crawford, Stanley (2019). The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires. Leaf Storm Press.