Edward Hoagland was born December 21, 1932, in New York, New York. He joined the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1951, before graduating from Harvard in 1954. After serving two years in the Army, he traveled the world from Yemen to Antarctica to Assam, writing for national magazines. He has received numerous literary awards and taught at ten colleges and universities. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1982. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Hoagland has written more than two dozen books over sixty years, including the novel Children are Diamonds, and his recent short story collection Devil's Tub.
A native New Yorker, he divides his time between Martha's Vineyard and a farmhouse in the mountains of northern Vermont. (Barton, VT).
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