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Abbey, Edward (sh)




born Jan. 29, 1927, Home, Pa., U.S.
died March 14, 1989, Oracle, Ariz.

U.S. writer and environmentalist.

Abbey worked as a park ranger and fire lookout for the National Park Service. He wrote a number of volumes on consumer culture's encroachment on the American wilderness. Desert Solitaire (1968), one of his best-known, is set in southeastern Utah. His 1975 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang, describing the exploits of a band of guerrilla environmentalists, inspired numerous real-life activists.