Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Susan Brind Morrow (born 1958) is an American author and poet.Morrow was born in Geneva, New York and attended Barnard College and Columbia University.Her first book, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, is \"travel writing and memoir threaded through with musings on the origins of words\" which Annette Kobak says \"manages to unlock a sense of the awe and poetry our most ancient ancestors must have felt in naming things for the first time\". The book was partially inspired by the death of her younger brother. It was a finalist for the PEN: Martha Albrand Award for the Memoir in 1998. James Dickey praised her work calling comparing it to the work of Stephen Crane, Robert Graves and Freya Stark.Morrow was a fellow of the Crane-Rogers Foundation/Institute of Current World Affairs in Egypt and Sudan (1988–90). She is a 2006 fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation.She is married to the American essayist Lance Morrow. They live on a farm in Columbia County, New York."@en }
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- Susan_Brind_Morrow abstract "Susan Brind Morrow (born 1958) is an American author and poet.Morrow was born in Geneva, New York and attended Barnard College and Columbia University.Her first book, The Names of Things: A Passage in the Egyptian Desert, is \"travel writing and memoir threaded through with musings on the origins of words\" which Annette Kobak says \"manages to unlock a sense of the awe and poetry our most ancient ancestors must have felt in naming things for the first time\". The book was partially inspired by the death of her younger brother. It was a finalist for the PEN: Martha Albrand Award for the Memoir in 1998. James Dickey praised her work calling comparing it to the work of Stephen Crane, Robert Graves and Freya Stark.Morrow was a fellow of the Crane-Rogers Foundation/Institute of Current World Affairs in Egypt and Sudan (1988–90). She is a 2006 fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation.She is married to the American essayist Lance Morrow. They live on a farm in Columbia County, New York.".