Stanley Crawford

NationalityAmericanAlma materUniversity of Chicago
University of ParisNotable awardsWestern States Book Award (1988)

Stanley Crawford (1937 – January 25, 2024) was an American writer and farmer.^[1] His novels include, among others, Travel Notes (1967), The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine (1972), Some Instructions (1978), and Petroleum Man (2005). His nonfiction works include A Garlic Testament (1992), a biography of life on his farm in Dixon, New Mexico. Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico (1988) was the winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.^[2]

Biography

Crawford was born in 1937, and was educated at the University of Chicago and the Sorbonne. He moved to Dixon, New Mexico in 1970, where he owned El Bosque, a garlic farm,^[3] and served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market.^[4] Crawford died in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.^[5]

Works

• Crawford, Stanley (1966). Gascoyne. New York: Putnam. OCLC 1395235.
  • Reissued by Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-1468307962.
• Crawford, Stanley (1968). Travel Notes (from here—to there). Simon & Schuster. OCLC 437091.
  • Reissued by Calamari Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-940853-02-4.
• Crawford, Stanley (1972). The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 1564785122.
• Crawford, Stanley (1978). Some Instructions. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 0916583155.
• Crawford, Stanley (1988). Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826309992.
  • Reissued by University of New Mexico Press, 1993. ISBN 0826314457.
• Crawford, Stanley (1998). A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0826325319.
• Crawford, Stanley (2003). The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays. University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0826328571.
• Crawford, Stanley (2005). Petroleum Man. Penguin. ISBN 978-1468307979.
• Crawford, Stanley (2015). Seed. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573661836.
• Crawford, Stanley (2016). Intimacy. Fiction Collective. ISBN 978-1573660549.
• Crawford, Stanley (2017). Village: a novel. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652950.
• Crawford, Stanley (2019). The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires. Leaf Storm Press. ISBN 978-1945652059

References

Further reading

• Bates, Sarah F. (1993). Searching Out the Headwaters: Change And Rediscovery In Western Water Policy. Island Press. pp. 22, 50–52. ISBN 978-1-55963-218-8.
• Powers, Bill (2010). Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin off the Grid & Beyond The American Dream. New World Library. pp. 85–94. ISBN 978-1-57731-898-9.
• Rivera, José A. (1998). Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest. University of New Mexico Press. pp. 175–176. ISBN 978-0-8263-1858-9.

Interviews

• Carroll, Sean P. (September 2008). "An Interview with Stanley Crawford". Bookslut. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
• Guengerich, Gail (April 4–10, 2013). "Leaves and Asphalt: Stanley Crawford and the center of the universe". Weekly Alibi. Vol. 22, no. 14. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
• Sparks, Stephen (May 20, 2014). "Stanley Crawford". Bomb. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
• Unferth, Deb Olin (September 9, 2008). "Interview with Stanley Crawford". Powell's Books Blog. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
• Young, Alex (April 3, 2009). "An Interview with Stanley Crawford". NewWest.net. August Publications. Retrieved April 29, 2015.

Reviews

Gascoyne

• Ventura, Michael (November 25, 2005). "Letters at 3AM: The return of Gascoyne". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved April 29, 2015.

Travel Notes

• Carroll, Tobias (April 2, 2014). "Tobias Carroll on Travel Notes: The Ever-Shifting Status". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
• Jauchen, Michael (April 3, 2014). "Travel Notes (From here — to there) – Stanley Crawford". Full Stop. Retrieved April 29, 2015.

Petroleum Man

• Riker, Martin (June 22, 2006). "Stanley Crawford. Petroleum Man. (Book review)". The Review of Contemporary Fiction. Archived from the original on March 29, 2015. (subscription required)
• Warzel, Peter C. (July–August 2005). "Bedtime Stories from the Business World". American Book Review. 26 (5). (subscription required)

External links

• Official website