Gary Snyder
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1930, May 8 Gary Snyder born in San Francisco 1932 Moves to Washington State 1942 Moves to Portland, Oregon. 1951 Spring: Snyder graduates from Reed with BA in anthropology and literature; Summer: Snyder works as timber scaler on Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Oregon 1953-6 Snyder studies Oriental culture and languages at University of California at Berkeley. 1956 Snyder goes to Japan for first time on scholarship from First Zen Institute of America 1959-1968 Snyder lives off and on in Kyoto, Japan; studies under Zen master Oda Sesso Roshi. 1971 Snyder builds his own house, 'Kitkitdizze’, in foothills of Sierra Nevada, on the South Fork of the Yuba River, where he continues to live today. 1975 Snyder awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Turtle Island Publications: Cold Mountain Poems Mountains and Rivers Without End Axe Handles Riprap, Myths & Texts The Dimensions of a Haida Myth A Range of Poems TheBack Country Earth House Hold Regarding Wave The Fudo Trilogy Turtle Island The Old Ways The Real Work Left Out in the Rain, Danger On Peak |