“B” is for Burroughs, Franklin Gorham, Jr. (b 1942). Essayist, environmentalist, educator. A native of Conway, Burroughs was educated at the University of the South and Harvard University. He taught at Bowdoin College in Maine (1968-2000). His collection Billy Watson's Croker Sack appeared in 1991. A year later his book Horry and the Waccamaw was published and reissued later with the title The River Home: A Return to the Carolina Low Country. The River Home tells the story of Burroughs’s canoe trip down the Waccamaw River, focusing on the country landscapes that he remembered from childhood. The book is about the intimate relationship between human beings and the land about how people's customs and language reflect their environment in complex ways. Franklin Gorhum Burroughs, Jr.’s work is often compared to that of New England poet Henry David Thoreau.
“B” is for Burroughs, Franklin Gorham, Jr. (b 1942)
