He received multiple awards for his second novel, Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It (1958), including the Phi Beta Kappa prize for the best book in science. Two years before his death, Eiseley published the autobiography All the Strange Hours (1975).Įiseley received many awards for his writing and work during his life, and his work is still admired today. Additionally, Eiseley published numerous essays in magazines such as Harper's Magazine, Scientific American, The American Scholar, Science, and The Saturday Evening Post. Many of his novels are collections of these essays. Eiseley is often noted for his unique writing style that he explained as a concealed essay," in which he used anecdotes to observe scientific subjects.
During his life, he published several novels and poetry collections. He held various anthropological positions for 20 years before publishing his first novel, The Immense Journey (1957), at age 50.Įiseley is well known as a writer, an anthropologist, a sociologist, and a naturalist. Eiseley also worked as a curator of the early man exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He was also a provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1961. Eiseley continued to work as a professor for the majority of his career and was promoted to be a chairman for various academic programs.
He received his BA in 1933 and later earned an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1935 and a PhD in 1937.Įiseley received his first job as an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Kansas in 1937. Eiseley participated in his first archaeological dig, wrote and published poetry for the first time, and discovered his interest in nature. However, during this time, Eiseley took many steps toward the start of his successful career as a writer and anthropologist. Eiseley's father died in 1928, causing great mental trauma in Eisley's life. The couple had no children.Įiseley attended the University of Nebraska, where he spent eight years balancing academics and coping with physical and psychological problems. His mother was deaf and Eiseley once wrote that she was "on the brink of mental collapse." Eiseley married Mabel Langdon on August 29, 1938. As a child, Eiseley spent a large amount of time exploring the nature of Nebraska and visiting the University of Nebraska Museum to escape the stresses of his family's financial instability and his mother's disability.
His parents were Clyde Edwin, an amateur actor and salesman, and Daisy Eiseley, an artist.
Loren Corey Eiseley was born September 3, 1907, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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