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Jenny Price

Jennifer Jaye Price[1] (born 1960/1961) is an American writer and artist. She is author of Flight Maps (2000) and Stop Saving the Planet! (2021) and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow.

Jenny Price
Giving a tour of the Los Angeles River in 2011
Born1960 or 1961 (age 65–66)
Occupations
  • Writer
  • artist
Notable work
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2005)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisFlight Maps: Encounters with Nature in Modern American Culture (1998)

Biography

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Jenny Price was born in 1960 or 1961 and is from St. Louis.[2] Her father was an attorney involved in the civil rights movement, defending people blacklisted by McCarthyism.[2] She obtained her BA in biology from Princeton University in 1985.[3] As she noted in a 2020 interview, she "discovered history my last semester in college very accidentally", and discovered her own self-described nature as a "born historian".[4] She later attended Yale University for her graduate studies, where she studied with William Cronon[4] and obtained a PhD in history in 1998.[3] Her doctoral dissertation was titled Flight Maps: Encounters with Nature in Modern American Culture.[1]

In 2000, she published Flight Maps, a book on American culture's history with nature.[5] She was a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow[6] and a 2013 Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society Fellow.[7] She authored a second book, Stop Saving the Planet!, focused on greenwashing and released by W. W. Norton & Company in 2021.[8]

She co-founded the public art collectives LA Urban Rangers and St. Louis Division,[9] and as part of the former took people to safari-like gatherings at public beaches in the local area.[4] She co-developed an app with Escape Apps to help find public access points to public beaches in Malibu, California.[2] She has worked as a research fellow at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.[10]

After living in Los Angeles,[4] she moved back to her native St. Louis in 2016.[9]

Bibliography

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References

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  1. 1 2 "Dissertations by year, 1990-1999". Yale University Department of History. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Beach access on the phone". The Los Angeles Times. May 27, 2013. p. A13 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. 1 2 "CV of JENNY PRICE" (PDF). Jenny Price. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Radney, Imani (March 23, 2020). "Public Thinker: Jenny Price on Refusing to Save the Planet". Public Books. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  5. ↑ Price, Jennifer (June 27, 2017). FLIGHT MAPS. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02486-5. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ "Jennifer Price". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  7. ↑ "Jenny Price". Society of Fellows. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Stop Saving the Planet!". wwnorton.com. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  9. 1 2 "About / Contact". Jenny Price. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Jenny Price". University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved September 22, 2025.
  11. ↑ Abbott, Charlotte; Bing, Jonathan; Zaleski, Jeff; Gediman, Paul (April 19, 1999). "Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 246, no. 16. p. 52. ProQuest 197019890.
  12. ↑ Farber, Paul Lawrence (2001). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Isis. 92 (1): 235. doi:10.1086/385164. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 237451.
  13. ↑ Johnson, Amy Edith (June 27, 1999). "Natural Mystic". Los Angeles Times. p. 9. ProQuest 421518562.
  14. ↑ "FLIGHT MAPS: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Kirkus Reviews. No. 7. April 1, 1999. ProQuest 917026480.
  15. ↑ Kroll, Gary (2001). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America; Reel Nature: America's Romance with Wildlife on Film". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 76 (3): 380–382. doi:10.1086/394073. ISSN 0033-5770. JSTOR 2664930.
  16. ↑ Lucas, Susan M. (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 7 (2): 289–290. doi:10.1093/isle/7.2.289. ISSN 1076-0962. JSTOR 44085810.
  17. ↑ Maddux, Carolyn (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". The Antioch Review. 58 (2): 240. doi:10.2307/4613999. ISSN 0003-5769. JSTOR 4613999.
  18. ↑ Marling, Karal Ann (June 6, 1999). "The way of the dodo". New York Times Book Review. p. 7/44:3. ProQuest 217293219.
  19. ↑ Ross, Tina (1999). "Absorbing nature". E: The Environmental Magazine. Vol. 10, no. 5. p. 61. ProQuest 229131518.
  20. ↑ Steinberg, Ted (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". The Journal of American History. 87 (3): 1108–1109. doi:10.2307/2675409. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 2675409.
  21. ↑ West, Elliott (2000). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Environmental History. 5 (3): 407–408. doi:10.2307/3985484. ISSN 1084-5453. JSTOR 3985484.
  22. ↑ Wright, Scott D. (1999). "Review of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America". Human Ecology Review. 6 (2): 129–130. ISSN 1074-4827. JSTOR 24707074.
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