Jenny Price
American writer and artist
Jennifer Jaye Price (born 1960/1961) is an American writer and artist. She is author of Flight Maps (2000) and Stop Saving the Planet! (2021) and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow.
Biography
Jenny Price was born in 1960 or 1961 and is from St. Louis. Her father was an attorney involved in the civil rights movement, defending people blacklisted by McCarthyism. She obtained her BA in biology from Princeton University in 1985. As she noted in a 2020 interview, she "discovered history my last semester in college very accidentally", and discovered her own self-described nature as a "born historian". She later attended Yale University for her graduate studies, where she studied with William Cronon and obtained a PhD in history in 1998. Her doctoral dissertation was titled Flight Maps: Encounters with Nature in Modern American Culture.
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