Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose.
Snyder is a poet, environmentalist, educator and Zen Buddhist..
His 1992 collection, No Nature , was a National Book Award finalist, and in 2008 he received the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Snyder has also been awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry and the Robert Kirsch Lifetime Achievement Award.
Since 1970 he has lived in the watershed of the South Yuba River in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
Gary Snyder is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry and prose