Gary Snyder: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Gary Sherman Snyder
Born	May 8, 1930 (age 96) • San Francisco • California
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (2008) • Bollingen Prize (1997)
Notable Works	“Axe Handles” • “Back on the Fire: Essays” • “Danger on Peaks” • “Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder” • “Earth House Hold” • “He Who Hunted Birds in His Father’s Village” • “Mountains and Rivers Without End” • “Myths and Texts” • “No Nature” • “Regarding Wave” • “Riprap” • “The Back Country” • “The Great Clod: Notes and Memoirs on Nature and History in East Asia” • “The Old Ways” • “The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder” • “This Present Moment” • “Turtle Island”
Movement / Style	Beat movement