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Notes of an Alchemist by Loren Eiseley5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() He was also a provost of the University of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1961. Eiseley continued to work as a professor for the majority of his career and was promoted to be a chairman for various academic programs. He received his BA in 1933 and later earned an MA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1935 and a PhD in 1937.Įiseley received his first job as an associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Kansas in 1937. Eiseley participated in his first archaeological dig, wrote and published poetry for the first time, and discovered his interest in nature. However, during this time, Eiseley took many steps toward the start of his successful career as a writer and anthropologist. Eiseley's father died in 1928, causing great mental trauma in Eisley's life. The couple had no children.Įiseley attended the University of Nebraska, where he spent eight years balancing academics and coping with physical and psychological problems. His mother was deaf and Eiseley once wrote that she was "on the brink of mental collapse." Eiseley married Mabel Langdon on August 29, 1938. As a child, Eiseley spent a large amount of time exploring the nature of Nebraska and visiting the University of Nebraska Museum to escape the stresses of his family's financial instability and his mother's disability. His parents were Clyde Edwin, an amateur actor and salesman, and Daisy Eiseley, an artist. ![]() Loren Corey Eiseley was born September 3, 1907, in Lincoln, Nebraska. ![]()
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