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The Measure of Man

by Joseph Wood Krutch

National Book · 1955 · Winner
NonfictionISBN 9780674987913

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Award for Nonfiction1955Winner

About the Author

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) was an American critic, biographer, and naturalist best known for his work The Modern Temper (1929), biographies of Samuel Johnson and Henry David Thoreau, and nature writings like The Voice of the Desert and The Desert Year focused on the American Southwest. University.

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