HAL BORLAND; AUTHOR, NATURALIST, EDITORIAL ESSAYIST and COLUMNIST. Writer of more than 30 books. He wrote thousands of Nature editorials for the NEW YORK TIMES. A weekly column for the BERKSHIRE EAGLE in Pittsfield, Massachusetts for 25 years and hundreds of magazine articles. In 1968 he won the JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL; America's highest award for nature writing. Hal Borland grew up in Flagler, Colorado where his parents William and Sarah were the owners of a weekly newspaper. At the University of Colorado he studied Chemical Engineering but changed his Major to English. He wrote his first book "Rocky Mountain Tipi Tales" while a student at the Columbia School of Journalism. He graduated in 1923. Borland was a staff writer for the NEW YORK TIMES from 1937-1943. He and his wife Barbara purchased a farm on Weatogue Road in Salisbury, Connecticut in 1952 it was here where he wrote 22 of his books. His book "Where the Legends Die" was turned into a major motion picture.
HAL BORLAND; AUTHOR, NATURALIST, EDITORIAL ESSAYIST and COLUMNIST. Writer of more than 30 books. He wrote thousands of Nature editorials for the NEW YORK TIMES. A weekly column for the BERKSHIRE EAGLE in Pittsfield, Massachusetts for 25 years and hundreds of magazine articles. In 1968 he won the JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL; America's highest award for nature writing. Hal Borland grew up in Flagler, Colorado where his parents William and Sarah were the owners of a weekly newspaper. At the University of Colorado he studied Chemical Engineering but changed his Major to English. He wrote his first book "Rocky Mountain Tipi Tales" while a student at the Columbia School of Journalism. He graduated in 1923. Borland was a staff writer for the NEW YORK TIMES from 1937-1943. He and his wife Barbara purchased a farm on Weatogue Road in Salisbury, Connecticut in 1952 it was here where he wrote 22 of his books. His book "Where the Legends Die" was turned into a major motion picture.
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