Scott Sanders
Essayist, Author
1945 –
Who is Scott Sanders?
Scott Russell Sanders is an American novelist and essayist.
Sanders has won acclaim for his skill as a personal essayist. He is a contributing editor to Audubon magazine and won the John Burroughs Natural History Essay Award in 2000. A frequent public lecturer, his essay "The Force of Spirit," which opens his 2000 book of essays by the same title, was first given as a lecture before the Orion Society's Millennium Conference in 1999. The essay later appeared in the Best American Essays 2000 and was the fourth essay of Sanders' to appear in the Best American series. He received the Lannan Literary Award in 1995 for his non-fiction writing and has received the Frederick Bachman Lieber Award for Distinguished Teaching, the highest teaching award given at IU.
Sanders was a distinguished professor of English at Indiana University, until his retirement in 2009, where he had taught since 1971. During his career, he has spent sabbatical years as a writer-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy, and as a Visiting Professor at University of Oregon, MIT, and Beloit College . He is married with two children, Eva and Jesse, both of whom he addresses in letters included in The Force of Spirit.
We need you!
Help us build the largest biographies collection on the web!
- Born
- Oct 26, 1945
Memphis - Also known as
- Scott Russel Sanders
- Scott Russell Sanders
- Scott R. Sanders
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of Cambridge
English Literature
( - 1971) - Brown University
English Studies
( - 1967) - Physics
- PhD, University of Cambridge
- Lived in
- Bloomington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
Citation
Use the citation below to add to a bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Scott Sanders." Biographies.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 25 Apr. 2024. <https://www.biographies.net/people/en/scott_sanders>.
Discuss this Scott Sanders biography with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In