Ten Thousand Central Parks: A Climate-Change Parable - David Brown Morris

Brown Morris, David: - David Brown Morris, writer and scholar, retired as University Professor at the University of Virginia from a position split between English and the School of Medicine. His book The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize and led to multiple lectures and essays in pain medicine. It also initiates a trilogy that includes Illness and Culture in the Postmodern Age (1998) and Eros and Illness (2017).

Earlier work includes two prizewinning books in eighteenth- century studies, The Religious Sublime (1972) and Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984). In addition to numerous essays and articles, he has written three books of narrative nonfiction: Earth Warrior (1995), about an anti- driftnet mission with environmental activist Paul Watson; Civil War Duet (2019), an intergenerational dialogue with his great- grandfather, Newton Brown, who served with the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry; and the wide- ranging Wanderers: Literature, Culture and the Open Road (2021). He held several distinguished professorships and has received yearlong grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Society of Learned Fellows, and (awarded jointly with NEH) the National Science Foundation.