Ellen Meloy (December 11, 1946 – November 4, 2004) was an American writer. December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for The Anthropology of Turquoise Meditations on Landscape, Art & Spirit (2003), a moving and humorous exploration of growing up deprived of a swimming pool in the southwest and the draining of wildlife from the southwest. Meloy was a rare breed of writer--outrageously funny and utterly focused in her commitment to the environmental movement. She was drawn to the scrappy and mischievous, as is reflected in her Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River. Self-destruction was another interest of hers, as she plotted out the map of her known universe plus the alarmingly flimsy protections from the remnants of the Manhattan Project in The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest. Her fascination with and love of desert bighorn sheep were evident in her last book, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, which also provides glimpses of her own coming to terms with mortality. She died in Bluff, Utah. The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. ... Characteristic scenery of Bluff, Utah Bluff is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Juan County, Utah, United States. ...

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