Eric Zencey
American writer
Eric Zencey (1953–July 1, 2019) was an American author. He was a lecturer at the University of Vermont and Washington University in St. Louis.
Life and work
In 1980, he taught at Goddard College. It was at Goddard where he met and married the novelist Kathryn Davis.
Zencey's Ph.D. dissertation, "Entropy as Root Metaphor," published at Claremont Graduate University in 1985, included a chapter calling for the development of a thermodynamically enlightened economics. He recycled some of the material there into some of the essays appearing in Virgin Forest.
Zencey taught at the University of Vermont in the Honors College program and Empire State College’s International Program. Zencey also taught Architecture and Urban planning as a visiting lecturer at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.
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