His college career was not smooth, however, and it took him eight years to graduate.

He not only introduced Eiseley to the fossil collection at the University of Nebraska Museum, thus inadvertently guiding him into his eventual career, but also helped him pay college tuition after his father died.Īfter attending local schools, Eiseley entered the University of Nebraska in the fall of 1925. Perhaps to compensate for his mother's unusual behavior, his father, although he worked long hours, was consistently kind and understanding in addition, his uncle, William Buchanan Price, offered support and assistance. The fugitive-outsider imagery that is found in his work resulted, in part, from this silent, solitary youth. The strangeness of his home life and frequent moves in and around Lincoln caused young Eiseley to have, to a large extent, an isolated, lonely childhood. A far more significant aspect of his childhood, however, was his mother's deafness and her paranoid, neurotic behavior which led to marital tensions and conflicts. These interests undoubtedly influenced Eiseley's literary sensibilities. His mother, Daisy Corey, had artistic ambitions and was a painter of some talent. His father, Clyde Edwin Eiseley, had been an itinerant semi-professional actor in his youth and later worked as a hardware salesman. Of Scots-English and German pioneering stock, Loren Corey Eiseley was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on September 3, 1907. Decades after his departure from the world he sought to understand, Eiseley is lauded for beautifully joining the worlds of science and literature.Trained as an anthropologist and paleontologist, Loren Corey Eiseley (1907-1977) became one of the foremost essayists of his generation to interpret science for the layman. Throughout this volume, Eiseley is praised as a brilliant thinker, accomplished writer, and esteemed man of science who drew inspiration from his midwestern upbringing and worked to bring science into the mainstream at a time when its understanding was restricted largely to those working directly in the field. Loren Eiseley collects essays and remembrances of his work by friends and academics. Much of his work covered anthropology, ecology, and human evolution, topics in which Eiseley himself was extensively educated. Loren Eiseley and the human condition / Naomi Brill.īorn, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley (1907-77) was a highly respected writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems easily read and understood by the general public.Loren Eiseley and the state of grace / Ben Howard.The literary achievement of Loren Eiseley / E.Loren Eiseley, student of time / Erleen J.Loren Eiseley in Lincoln : two poems and a remembrance / Gale E.Loren Eiseley, 1907-1977 / Howard Nemerov.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.

Loren Eiseley by E. Fred Carlisle