Editing Daniel Quinn (section)

==Biography==
Daniel Quinn was born in [[Omaha, Nebraska]], where he graduated from [[Creighton Preparatory School]]. He went on to study at [[Saint Louis University]], at the [[University of Vienna]], [[Austria]], through [[Institute for the International Education of Students|IES Abroad]], and at [[Loyola University Chicago|Loyola University]], receiving a bachelor's degree in English ''[[cum laude]]'' in 1957. He delayed part of this university education, however, while a [[postulant]] at the [[Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani]] in [[Bardstown, Kentucky]], where he hoped to become a [[Trappist]] [[monk]];<ref name="Dawei 2014 46">{{Harvcoltxt|Bei Dawei|2014|p=46}}</ref> however his spiritual director, [[Thomas Merton]], prematurely ended Quinn's postulancy. Quinn went into publishing, abandoned his [[Catholic]] faith, and married twice unsuccessfully,<ref>Quinn (''Providence'', 1996:107)</ref> before marrying Rennie MacKay Quinn, his third and final wife of 42 years.<ref name="obit">"In Memory of Daniel Clarence Quinn". ''Legacy''. Neptune Society. 2018.</ref>

In 1975, Quinn left his career as a publisher to become a [[freelance writer]]. He is best known for his book ''[[Ishmael (Quinn novel)|Ishmael]]'' (1992), which won the [[Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award]] in 1991. Several judges disputed giving the entire $500,000 award to Quinn for ''Ishmael'', rather than dividing the money among several authors, though judge [[Ray Bradbury]], for one, supported the decision.{{sfn|McDowell|1991}} ''Ishmael'' became the first of a loose trilogy of novels by Quinn, including ''[[The Story of B]]'' and ''[[My Ishmael]]'', all of which brought increasing fame to Quinn throughout the 1990s. He became a well-known author to followers of the [[environmental movement|environmental]], [[simple living]], and [[anarchy|anarchist movements]], although he did not strongly self-identify with any of these.<ref name="Taylor">{{Harvcoltxt|Taylor|2010|pp=78–79}}</ref>

Quinn traveled widely to lecture and discuss his books. While response to ''[[Ishmael (Quinn novel)|Ishmael]]'' was mostly very positive, Quinn's ideas have inspired the most controversy with a claim mentioned in ''Ishmael'' but made much more forcefully in ''[[The Story of B]]''{{'}}s Appendix that the [[Human overpopulation#Population as a function of food availability|total human population grows and shrinks according to food availability]] and with the catastrophic real-world conclusions he draws from this.<ref name="Dawei 2014 44">{{Harvcoltxt|Bei Dawei|2014|p=44}}</ref>

In 1998, Quinn collaborated with environmental biologist Alan D. Thornhill in producing ''Food Production and Population Growth,'' a video elaborating in-depth the science behind the ideas he describes in his fiction.<ref name="Moral Ground">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160523072224/http://moralground.com/authors/daniel-quinn] ''Moral Ground''. Trinity University Press. 2010. (Wayback Machine Archive, May 23 2016)</ref>

Quinn's book ''Tales of Adam'' was released in 2005 after a long bankruptcy scuffle with its initial publisher. It is designed to be a look through the [[animist]]'s eyes in seven short tales; Quinn first explores the idea of [[animism]] as the original worldwide religion and as his own dogma-free belief system in ''The Story of B'' and his autobiography, ''[[Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest]]''.<ref name="Dawei 2014 46" />

In February 2018, Quinn died of [[aspiration pneumonia]] in [[hospice care]].<ref name="obit" />