![]() The most important historical era to which Ishmael reacts is the radical movement of the 1960s. Since 2000, he’s been involved in a great number of rallies, conferences, and forums regarding issues of anarchism, environmentalism, and pacifism. Following the success of Ishmael, Quinn wrote two other philosophical novels about anthropology and the environment: The Story of B (1996), and My Ishmael (1997). ![]() Ishmael won Quinn the prestigious Turner Award, organized by the media billionaire Ted Turner. Quinn’s breakthrough came in 1991, when he wrote his best-known novel, the philosophical dialogue Ishmael. He didn’t write a novel of his own until 1988-this novel, Dreamer, was a work of science fiction, and while it earned fairly positive reviews, it didn’t sell well. ![]() Following his departure from Kentucky, Quinn moved to New York and worked in publishing for many years. Quinn fell out with his mentors at the abbey-a falling out that contributed to his abandonment of Catholicism altogether in the mid-1960s. Afterwards, he studied at the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Bardstown, Kentucky, in the hopes of becoming a monk. He later studied at a variety of universities, including Saint Louis University, where he earned a B.A. ![]() Daniel Quinn was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and was raised Catholic. ![]()
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