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Thomas Rain Crowe
Biography
THOMAS
RAIN CROWE was born in 1949 and is an internationally-published writer and the
author of twelve books of original and translated works. He was a founding
editor of Katuah Journal: A Bioregional Journal of the Southern Appalachians,
which Gary Snyder called the best bioregional publication in the U.S.. His
memoir, Zoro's Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods, is written in the style of
Thoreau’s Walden and based on four years of self-sufficient living in a
wilderness environment in the woods of western North Carolina, from 1979 to 1982.
The memoir
was published by the University of Georgia Press in the spring of 2005; it won
the 2005 Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction for a book by a North Carolina author.
Crowe currently resides along the Tuckasegee River in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. He has been a
features writer for such publications as Green Line, Wild Mountain Times
and
other regional publications. He currently writes features and columns on
culture, community and the environment for the Smoky Mountain News. An
activist since 1979, he has been involved with such issues and organizations as
The Canary Coalition (Clean Air), AMUSE (Artists and Musicians United for a Safe
Environment), and Project to Protect Native American Sacred Sites in the S.
Appalachians. He has been on the board of the Southern Biodiversity Project and
the Environmental Leadership Council for WNC. His literary archives have
recently been purchased by and are collected at the Duke University Special
Collections Library in Durham, North Carolina.
Thomas Rain Crowe
P.O. Box 2554
Cullowhee, NC 28723
(828) 293-9237
newnativepress@hotmail.com
www.newnativepress.com
My Life in the Appalachian Woods
Thomas Rain Crowe's memoir about a time spent living alone in a cabin in the woods along the Green River in WNC. The memoir, Zoro’s Field, is now available from University of Georgia Press.
"A remarkable testimony to a life of conscience lived close to the land."
TGIF presentation May 5, 2006