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Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 - October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930–1980. He is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.
Born Edwin Alfred Teale in Joliet, Illinois, to Oliver Cromwell Teale and Clara Louise (Way) Teale, his interest in the natural world was fostered by childhood summers spent at his grandparents' "Lone Oak" farm in Indiana's dune country—experiences recalled in his book Dune Boy (1943). At the age of nine, Teale declared himself a naturalist and at 12 changed his name to Edwin Way Teale.
He received a B.A. from Earlham College in English literature in 1922, then took a job at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. Teale taught at Friends from 1922–1924 and served as men's and women's debate coach, yearbook adviser and chairman of the campus Peace Contest. In 1923 he married Nellie Imogene Donovan, also on the Friends faculty, whom he had met while at Earlham College.
In 1924, Edwin and Nellie moved to New York City so Edwin could pursue his education at Columbia University. Teale chose Columbia in part
... because it was in New York and it wouldn't take two months to get a manuscript back from a magazine.
In 1926 he received his Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.
In New York, Teale spent 13 years in his first full-time writing job, as a staff writer for Popular Science, working on a wide variety of assignments. In 1937, Teale's first photographic nature study, Grassroots Jungle, was published from among 200 of Teale's insect photographs, many of which were taken on a 4-acre (1.6 ha) plot of land near his home on Park Avenue in Baldwin, Long Island This was followed, in 1941, by The Golden Throng, a combination of text and photographs on bees.
At the age of 42, Teale left Popular Science to become a freelance photographer and nature writer.
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Edwin Way Teale
Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 - October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930–1980. He is perhaps best known for his series The American Seasons, four books documenting over 75,000 miles (121,000 km) of automobile travel across North America following the changing seasons.
Born Edwin Alfred Teale in Joliet, Illinois, to Oliver Cromwell Teale and Clara Louise (Way) Teale, his interest in the natural world was fostered by childhood summers spent at his grandparents' "Lone Oak" farm in Indiana's dune country—experiences recalled in his book Dune Boy (1943). At the age of nine, Teale declared himself a naturalist and at 12 changed his name to Edwin Way Teale.
He received a B.A. from Earlham College in English literature in 1922, then took a job at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas. Teale taught at Friends from 1922–1924 and served as men's and women's debate coach, yearbook adviser and chairman of the campus Peace Contest. In 1923 he married Nellie Imogene Donovan, also on the Friends faculty, whom he had met while at Earlham College.
In 1924, Edwin and Nellie moved to New York City so Edwin could pursue his education at Columbia University. Teale chose Columbia in part
... because it was in New York and it wouldn't take two months to get a manuscript back from a magazine.
In 1926 he received his Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.
In New York, Teale spent 13 years in his first full-time writing job, as a staff writer for Popular Science, working on a wide variety of assignments. In 1937, Teale's first photographic nature study, Grassroots Jungle, was published from among 200 of Teale's insect photographs, many of which were taken on a 4-acre (1.6 ha) plot of land near his home on Park Avenue in Baldwin, Long Island This was followed, in 1941, by The Golden Throng, a combination of text and photographs on bees.
At the age of 42, Teale left Popular Science to become a freelance photographer and nature writer.