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Richard Brautigan: References & Edit History
Additional Reading
Biographies and memoirs include Edward Halsey Foster, Richard Brautigan (1983); Keith Abbott, Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan (1989; reissued 2009); Ianthe Brautigan, You Can’t Catch Death: A Daughter’s Memoir (2000); and Greg Keeler, Waltzing with the Captain: Remembering Richard Brautigan (2004). John F. Barber (ed.), Richard Brautigan: Essays on the Writings and Life (2007), is a collection of critical essays and reminiscences by friends. Also useful is John F. Barber, Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography (1990). Marc Chénetier, Richard Brautigan (1983), is a critical work by a French academic.
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Matt Stefon
Matt Stefon was a religion editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. He earned B.A. degrees in English and American studies from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.A. in religion and literature and an M.T.S. in philosophy, theology, and ethics (comparative religious ethics) from Boston University, where he also completed coursework toward a doctorate in comparative theology and American religious history. A native of the Northeast, Stefon was born and raised in Pennsylvania and educated both there and in Massachusetts, where he also taught college English and philosophy and ran a writing center. He is interested in the literature and folklore of the Anthracite mining fields and of New England. His more "scholarly" pursuits include American Transcendentalism, Confucian and neo-Confucian thought, Daoism, process philosophy and theology, the transmission of Asian religions in the United States, and the intersection of religion with literature and other arts.
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 19, 2024 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jan 26, 2024 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Richard Brautigan. | Aug 21, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Biography of Richard Brautigan. | Feb 11, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academy of American Poets - Biography of Richard Brautigan. | Feb 11, 2015 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised and updated. | Jan 28, 2011 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jan 28, 2011 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 24, 2005 | ||
| Article revised. | Sep 17, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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