Klinkenborg taught literature and creative writing at
Fordham University while living in
The Bronx in the early to mid-1980s. He later taught at
St. Olaf College,
Bennington College,
Sarah Lawrence College,
Bard College, and
Harvard University. In 1991, he received the
Lila Wallace–
Reader's Digest Writer's Award and a
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. Klinkenborg's books include
More Scenes from the Rural Life (
Princeton Architectural Press),
Making Hay and
The Last Fine Time. His book
Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile concerns the
tortoise which the English eighteenth century
parson-naturalist Gilbert White inherited from his aunt, as described in his 1789 book
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. In the first half of 2006, Klinkenborg posted a farm and garden blog about The Rural Life, consisting of entries from the daily journal kept by
Gilbert White in Selborne in 1784, and his own complementary daily entries. From 1997 to 2013, he was a member of the editorial board of
The New York Times. Klinkenborg has published articles in
The New Yorker,
The New York Review of Books, ''
Harper's Magazine, Esquire, National Geographic and Mother Jones'' magazines. He has written a series of editorial opinions in
The New York Times; these are generally literary meditations on rural farm life. On December 26, 2013, he announced in that column that it was to be the last he would be writing in that space. From 2006 to 2007, he was a visiting writer-in-residence at
Pomona College, where he taught nonfiction writing. In 2007, he received a
Guggenheim fellowship, which funded his book
The Mermaids of Lapland, about
William Cobbett. In 2012, he published “Several Short Sentences About Writing”. He currently teaches creative writing at
Yale University and lives on a small farm in
Upstate New York. ==Bibliography==