Hal Borland

Hal Borland's first outdoor essay appeared in The New York Times in the fall of 1941 and since then he has published some 1,200 more, many of them having been reprinted in anthologies and English textbooks. The essays have continued through the years to draw a large reader mail-from all over the United States and occasionally from abroad. Mr. Borland and his wife, author Barbara Dodge Borland, have lived for the past sev- eral years on their farm in Connecticut's lower Berkshire Hills. He was bom in Nebraska; much of his boyhood was spent on a homestead in eastern Colorado - re- captured memorably in one of his most pop- ular' books, High, Wide and Lonesome. He was graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism and received a Litt.D. degree from the University of Colorado in 1944.