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:''For other people with this name, see Daniel Quinn.'' Daniel Quinn (born October 11, 1935) is an American writer (primarily, novelist and fabulist), cultural critic, and former publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel ''Ishmael'', which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticizes this term, claiming that it portrays the environment as somehow separate from human life and thus creates a false dichotomy. Quinn specifically identifies his philosophy as new tribalism. ==Biography== Daniel Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he graduated from Creighton Preparatory School. He went on to study at Saint Louis University, at University of Vienna, Austria, through IES Abroad, and at Loyola University, receiving a bachelor's degree in English, cum laude, in 1957. He delayed part of this university education, however, while a postulant at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown, Kentucky, where he hoped to become a Trappist monk; however his spiritual director, Thomas Merton, prematurely ended Quinn's postulancy. Quinn then went into publishing, abandoned his Catholic faith, and underwent two unsuccessful marriages. In 1975, Quinn left his career as a publisher to become a freelance writer. He is best known for his book ''Ishmael'' (1992), which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. This fellowship was established to encourage authors to seek "creative and positive solutions to global problems." ''Ishmael'' became the first of a loose trilogy of novels by Quinn, including ''The Story of B'' and ''My Ishmael''. ''Ishmael'' and its follow-ups brought increasing fame to Quinn throughout the 1990s, and he became a very well-known author to segments of various social and political groups, including the environmental, simplicity, and anarchist movements, none of which he strongly self-identifies with. Nevertheless, his views are said to have "articulated the most prevalent cosmogony found within radical environmental subcultures." Quinn has traveled widely to lecture and discuss his books. While response to ''Ishmael'' was mostly very positive, Quinn's ideas have inspired the most controversy, particularly in ''The Story of Bs appendix, with his claim that human populations grow and shrink according to food availability and with the catastrophic real-world conclusions he draws from this. In 1998, Quinn collaborated with environmental biologist Alan D. Thornhill in producing ''Food Production and Population Growth,'' a 2-hour, 40-minute-long video (later DVD) elaborating in depth the ideas presented in his books. Quinn's book ''Tales of Adam'' was released in 2005 after a long bankruptcy scuffle with its initially scheduled publisher. It is designed to be a look through the animist's eyes in seven short tales; Quinn first explores the idea of animism as the original worldwide religion and as his own dogma-free belief system in ''The Story of B'' and his autobiographical ''Providence''.〔 In 2010, James Jay Lee, the perpetrator of the Discovery Communications headquarters hostage crisis, cited ''My Ishmael'' in his manifesto of demands.〔("Discovery Channel gunman James J. Lee’s manifesto" )〕 Quinn characterized Lee as a "fanatic" who had distorted his ideas. Quinn currently lives in Houston, Texas with his third wife, Rennie. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Quinn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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