Daniel Quinn

1935–2018

1 series 3 books in order

Daniel Clarence Quinn was an American author, cultural critic, and publisher of educational texts, best known for his novel Ishmael, which won the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award in 1991 and was published the following year. Quinn's ideas are popularly associated with environmentalism, though he criticized this term for portraying the environment as separate from human life, thus creating a false dichotomy, and the mainstream environmental movement as misguided and ultimately ineffective. Instead, Quinn referred to his philosophy as "new tribalism." Quinn was born in 1935 and died in 2018.

Born: 1935
Known for: Ishmael

Series by Daniel Quinn

Ishmael

3 books in order · 1991–1997

Ishmael

1991 · Daniel Quinn

Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. It explores themes of ethics, sustainability, and global catastrophe by examining hidden…
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The story of B

1996 · Daniel Quinn

The Story of B is a novel by Daniel Quinn that blends philosophical ideas with a suspenseful narrative. Father Jared Osborne, part of an order tasked…
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My Ishmael

1997 · Daniel Quinn

Daniel Quinn's Ishmael is a bestseller and a winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship. It is the first in a series that explores spiritual and…
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How many books has Daniel Quinn written?

We list 3 books by Daniel Quinn across 1 series, published between 1991–1997 — each shown in full reading order.

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