David Gessner

David Gessner is an American essayist, memoirist, nature writer, editor, and cartoonist. He has written nine books of nonfiction, including, most recently, All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West; The Tarball Chronicles; and My Green Manifesto. The Tarball Chronicles won the 2012 Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment and the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment’s award for best book of creative writing in 2011 and 2012. His essays have appeared in many magazines and journals including The New York Times Magazine, Outside, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2008, Onearth, The Georgia Review, The American Scholar, Orion, The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, The Harvard Review, and the 2006 Pushcart Prize Anthology, for which the essay "Benediction" was selected.