From 1969 to 1971, he ran the Stateville Penitentiary Writers' Workshop, which gave convicts guidance and encouragement to write. Quinn has also been involved in organizations that investigate world issues. Ishmael and its sequels brought Quinn ever-increasing fame throughout the 1990s, as he became a very well known author to certain segments of: the environmental movement the simplicity movement the anarchist movement and the Anarcho-primitivism movements. It is the first of a loose trilogy, which also includes the books The Story of B and My Ishmael. His second and most famous book, Ishmael, was published in 1992, and won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award, which was established to encourage authors to seek 'creative and positive solutions to global problems.' Ishmael has remained in print continuously since then, and has been translated into more than 25 different languages.

In 1975, Quinn quit his long career as a publisher to become a freelance writer. During this time, he served as: Biography and Fine Arts editor at the American Peoples Encyclopedia managing editor of the Greater Cleveland Mathematics Program (Science Research Associates) head of the mathematics department at Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation Executive Editor of Fuller & Dees Publishing (a division of the Times Mirror Corporation) and Editorial Director of the Society for Visual Education (a division of the Singer Corporation). He graduated from Creighton Preparatory School in 1953, and then studied at Saint Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University, where he received a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, in 1957.įor the first twenty years of his career, he worked in educational and consumer publishing in Chicago. Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1935. Daniel Quinn is an American writer known for works which question the human relationship to the environment.

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