Daniel Quinn
Daniel Quinn ( born October 11, 1935 in Omaha, Nebraska) is an American writer and critic of modern civilization.
Life
Daniel Quinn, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, where he earned a degree at the private Jesuit school Creighton Preparatory School. He studied at the Saint Louis University, the University of Vienna, the Institute of the International Education of Students (IES Abroad ) and Loyola University Chicago. The study period was extended by a postulate at a Trappistengemeinde in Kentucky. He hoped to become a monk there. But his spiritual mentor Thomas Merton was of the opinion that it would be best for him to finish his postulate. Quinn said to result from its Catholic faith going and worked as a publicist.
Since 1975 he has worked as a freelance writer. Quinn's most famous work is the book Ishmael, for which he was awarded with prize money of $ 500,000 Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991. According to the company, the price in the amount for a single work has since no longer awarded. Ishmael is the first part of a trilogy; it was followed by Story of B. and Ishmael secret. Ishmael gave the idea for the movie Instinct with Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr. in the lead roles.
By Ismael and its sequels Quinn became famous in the 1990s and a recognized author of the environmental movement and the primitivism. During this time he toured the world and held many readings and discussions from his book.
While the responses to Ismael were positive for the most part, details were quite controversial. Criticized the statement Quinns that population growth was the result of the modern food industry and the support of developing countries through food aid, therefore, to put back that the problems on the ground less intense perceived and can not be solved independently of the population. The loss of binding of the local residents to the capacity of the food supply of their habitat will inevitably lead to the enormous deterioration of the situation. Quinn claims that a setting of food aid and the restoration of the relationship between man and the food capacity of the environment in the long term the better remedy for famine was, for example, in the form of migration by resettle residents from areas with low food capacity in areas with surplus food production. For him, the way out of the crisis of modern society through the creation of a new, modern " tribal moderate " way of life leads.
1998 Quinn did with the environmental biologist Alan D. Thornhill together and produced the 2 hours and 40 minute long video " Food Production and Population Growth", which explores the ideas of his books and intensely illuminated.
In 2010, Quinn gained notoriety by an American named James Lee. This took place in the lobby of the headquarters of the Discovery Channel's three hostages and threatened with killing them. He wanted to force the transmitter to emit only programs that match his 11 -point manifesto. In this manifesto, he took direct reference to Daniel Quinn's book Ishmael secret. Quinn said that we are dealing in his eyes at Lee to a confused fanatic who distorting his ideas.
Ishmael and Ishmael's secret have been translated into 21 languages : Chinese, Danish, German, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Croatian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Hungarian.
Currently Quinn lives with his third wife Rennie in Houston, Texas.
Publications
- (1988 ) Dreamer
- (1992 ) Ismael
- (1996 ) Story of B.
- (1996 ) Providence: The Story of a 50 Year Vision Quest ( autobiography)
- (1997) Ishmael secret
- (1997) A Newcomer 's Guide to the Afterlife ( with Tom Whalen )
- (1999) An Animist Testament ( Audiobook )
- (2000) Beyond Civilization
- (2001) The Man Who Grew Young ( with drawings by Tim Eldred )
- (2001 ) After Dachau
- (2002) The Holy
- (2005) Tales of Adam
- (2006) Work, Work, Work
- (2007) If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways