Stanley Crawford


Stanley Crawford was an American writer and farmer. His novels include, among others, Travel Notes, The Log of the S.S. The Mrs Unguentine, Some Instructions, and Petroleum Man. His nonfiction works include A Garlic Testament, a biography of life on his farm in Dixon, New Mexico. Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico was the winner of the 1988 Western States Book Award for Creative Non-fiction.

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, and served for a time as the President of the Santa Fe Area Farmers' Market. Crawford died in Dixon on January 25, 2024, at the age of 86.

Works

Reviews

;Gascoyne
;Travel Notes
;Petroleum Man
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