Talk:Paul Shepard

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I added the Infobox writer to start fleshing out this page. I incorporated what info was already available but others can help by filling in missing information such as birthdate (if we can be more exact) as well as an photo. The subject entry in the info box could probably be more complete. It is a little hard to know where to stop. Kirkmona (talk) 19:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article seems to be a good start but is severely lacking in references. There is only one at this point. Shepard is a very notable author in the field but so far this article does not back that up. Kirkmona (talk) 19:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the death info up in the article as it conflicted with the "Early Life and Education" heading. In reality, the info can probably be removed completely as it is in the Infobox as well but this was the ONLY referenced material in the entire article so I'm reluctant to remove it entirely. Kirkmona (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

There is a link here http://home.earthlink.net/~frshepard/PaulShepardbib.html that has a complete bibliography as typed up by his wife. I personally don't think everything should be included but what about just listing his books in a "List of Works" section. I see many other authors have this on their pages. It would appear as follows:

• Encounters With Nature: Essays by Paul Shepard, ed. by Florence R. Shepard with an Introduction by David

Petersen, Washington, D.C: ISLAND PRESS/Shearwater Books, 1999).

• Coming Home to the Pleistocene, ed. by Florence R. Shepard (Washington D.C. : ISLAND

PRESS/Shearwater Books, 1998).

• Nature and Madness, with a Foreword by C.L.Rawlins (Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1998)

(San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1982).

• Thinking Animals: Animals and the Development of Human Intelligence, with a Foreword by Max Oelschlaeger

(Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1998) (New York: The Viking Press, 1978)

• The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game with a Foreword by George Sessions (Athens, GA: The

University of Georgia Press, 1998) ( New York: Scribners, 1973).

• Traces of an Omnivore, with an Introduction by Jack Turner (Washington, D. C.: Island Press/Shearwater

Books, 1996).

• The Only World We've Got : A Paul Shepard Reader (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1996).
• The Others: How Animals Made Us Human (Washington, D. C.: Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1996).
• Man in the Landscape: An Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature (College Station, TX: Texas A & M

University Press, 1991) (New York: Knopf, 1967).

• The Sacred Paw: The Bear in Nature, Myth, and Literature (with Barry Sanders) (New York: The Viking Press,

1985) (New York: Arcana Books, Penguin, 1992).

• Environ/mental: Essays on the Planet as Home (with Daniel McKinley) (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971).
• The Subversive Science: Essays Toward an Ecology of Man (with Daniel McKinley) (Boston: Houghton

Mifflin, 1969).

What are people's thoughts on this? Kirkmona (talk) 19:38, 11 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]