{{short description|American essayist and author}} '''Philip Connors''' is an American essayist and author. He was born in Iowa and raised in Minnesota. He studied journalism at the University of Montana. He interned at ''The Nation'' and subsequently worked at the ''Wall Street Journal'' for several years. He left New York City in 2002 and moved to New Mexico. He lived in Silver City, NM for several years before moving to El Paso, Texas.
Every year since 2002, Connors has worked for several months in the summer at the Gila National Forest as a US Forest Service fire lookout. His book based on these experiences ''Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout'' was published in 2011 to widespread critical acclaim.<ref>{{cite news |title=The 'Walden' of the Wildfire (Published 2011) |work=The New York Times |date=8 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317170442/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/books/review/book-review-fire-season-by-philip-connors.html?pagewanted=all |archive-date=2023-03-17 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/books/review/book-review-fire-season-by-philip-connors.html?pagewanted=all |last1=Hohn |first1=Donovan }}</ref> It won the 2011 National Outdoor Book Award (Outdoor Literature) and the 2012 Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.outsideonline.com/1910361/fire-season-wins-banff-book-competition-grand-prize |title='Fire Season' Wins Banff Book Competition Grand Prize |work=Outside |author=Joe Spring |date=November 2, 2012 |accessdate=February 7, 2018}}</ref> It also won the 2012 Reading the West Book Award for best adult non-fiction, given by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association.
Connors' work has been published in ''The Guardian'',<ref>{{cite web |title=How humans added fuel to the wildfires of New Mexico {{!}} Philip Connors |date=2011-08-26 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230317170443/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/26/wildfires-new-mexico-gila-national-forest |archive-date=2023-03-17 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/aug/26/wildfires-new-mexico-gila-national-forest}}</ref> ''Harper's Magazine'',<ref>[http://harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082198 Fires in the Gila]</ref> ''Paris Review'',<ref>[http://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/5853/diary-of-a-fire-lookout-philip-connors Diary of a Fire Lookout]</ref> ''n+1'',<ref>[http://nplusonemag.com/my-life-and-times-in-american-journalism My Life and Times in American Journalism]</ref> ''Salon'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://entertainment.salon.com/2006/10/22/abbey/ |title=Where have you gone, Edward Abbey? |access-date=2011-10-07 |archive-date=2012-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425021426/http://www.entertainment.salon.com/2006/10/22/abbey/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the ''London Review of Books''.<ref>[http://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/philip-connors Book reviews by Philip Connors]</ref>
==Bibliography== * {{cite book|author=Philip Connors|title=Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout (memoir)|year=2011|publisher=Ecco|isbn=9780061859366}} * {{cite book|author=Philip Connors|title=All The Wrong Places: A Life Lost and Found (memoir)|year=2015|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=9780393088762}} *Philip Connors (2018) . ''A Song For The River (memoir).'' Cinco Puntos Press. El Paso, Tx. {{ISBN|9781941026908}}
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==External links== * {{Official website|http://www.philipconnors.com/}}
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