Resources on Loren Eiseley

Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)

Loren Eiseley is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction and ecopoetry. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating personal narrative, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time.

This site provides access to a variety of resources for the appreciation, study, and teaching of Eiseley.

For additional information check out the Loren Eiseley Society.

Archival resources on Eiseley are held at the University of Pennsylvania Archives, and in the Jane Pope Geske Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors, at the Lincoln Public Library.