Grades 9–10
60+ Minutes
Narrative
VideosSean Prentiss is an essayist, poet, and professor. His book of nonfiction, Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. He is also the author of Crosscut: Poems, a memoir-in-poems about his time spent building trails in the Pacific Northwest. Prentiss is an Associate Professor at Norwich University in Vermont.
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by 826 National
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by 826 National
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by Sean Prentiss
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by 826 National
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by 826 National
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