Stephen J. Pyne
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Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializing in the history of ecology, the history of exploration, and the history of fire.
Education and Academic Activities
Pyne received his bachelor's degree at Stanford University, and master's and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988. He has also received a Fulbright Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.
He spent fifteen seasons as a wildland firefighter at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park between 1967 and 1981. Since the publication of his first book, Fire in America in 1982, he has been known as one of the world's foremost experts on the natural history of fire.
Bibliography
He has authored the following books:
- Fire: A Brief History (University of Washington Press and British Museum, 2001)
- Vestal Fire. An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World (1997; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 2000)
- World Fire. The Culture of Fire on Earth (Henry Holt and Co., 1995; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 1997; Japanese edition, Hosei University Press, 2001)
- Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (1982; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 1997)
- Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia (1991; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 1998)
- The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (1986; paperback edition, University of Washington Press, 1998)
- Introduction to Wildland Fire: Fire Management in the United States (New York: Wiley, 1984; out of print)
- Wildland Fires and Nuclear Winters: Selected Reconstruction of Historic Large Fires. (Defense Documentation Center, DNA-TR-85-396, February 1986), 167 pp, illus, unclassified report to Defense Nuclear Agency. Co-author, Dr Philip N. Omi.
- Fire on the Rim. A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon (1989; University of Washington Press, paperback edition, 1995)
- Introduction to Wildland Fire, 2nd ed. (New York: Wiley, 1996). Co-authors: Patricia Andrews and Richard Laven.
- America's Fires. Management in Wildlands and Forests (Durham: Forest History Society, 1997)
- How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History (Viking, 1998; Penguin Books, pb edition, 1999)
- Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 (New York: Viking, 2001; Penguin, pb edition, 2002)
- Smokechasing (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003)
External Link
- Pyne's website at Arizona State University (http://www.public.asu.edu/~spyne/)