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By profession a physical anthropologist, university administrator, and lecturer, Loren Eiseley was nevertheless an essayist by choice and a poet by temperament. His works include fifteen published volumes: Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It (1958), a work of scholarship whose conclusion reflects his development as a popular essayist; six collections of popular essays; a biography of Francis Bacon; a loosely structured series of reminiscences published as an autobiography, All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life (1975); three volumes of poetry; and a posthumous collection of essays, scholarly and popular, on which he had worked to establish the importance of Edward Blyth’s contributions to evolutionary theory, Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X: New Light on the Evolutionists (1979). In 1987, a collection, drawn from Eiseley’s notebooks and including notes, poems, a fragment of a novel, and photographs of the Eiseley family, was published under the editorship of Kenneth Heuer as The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley. |
