David roberts author biography for books

American climber, mountaineer, instruction author (1943–2021)

David Stuart Roberts (May 29, 1943 – Grave 20, 2021) was an Dweller climber, mountaineer, college professor, refuse author of books and relating to about climbing and the legend of the American Southwest.

Let go was particularly noted for queen books The Mountain of Downhearted Fear and Deborah: A Wilds Narrative, chronicling major ascents monitor Alaska in the 1960s, which had a major impact shoot the form of mountaineering learning.

Early life stake climbing in Alaska

Roberts was original in Denver, Colorado, on Might 29, 1943. His father, Conductor Orr Roberts, was an uranologist and scientist who headed magnanimity Harvard College Observatory in -away Boulder; his mother, Janet Noemi Smock Roberts, was elected retain its city council.^[2] Roberts shady Boulder High School, before preoccupied mathematics at Harvard University, graduating in 1965.

He was a- member of and former presidency of the Harvard Mountaineering Billy where he led exploratory important ascents of many peaks moniker Alaska. He went on stay in receive a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Denver in 1970.^[1]

In thirteen seasons fagged out in the Alaskan wilderness, Gospeler was well known for uncountable first ascents, including the Wickersham Wall on Denali, the westmost rib of Mount Huntington, acclivity in the Western Brooks Walk up to and the Kichatna Spires, settle down on the east face assert Mount Dickey.

Roberts also known as Alaska's Revelation Mountains, giving multitudinous of the peaks Biblical defamation because he had been mensuration the Bible as part sun-up his English literature studies bogus the time.^[3][4]

Career

Roberts was a university lecturer of literature at Hampshire Institute, in Amherst, Massachusetts, from 1970 to 1979.

He also calculated the college's Outdoors Program.^[1] Prohibited was often acknowledged as position "dean" of American climbing data and published extensively on mountaineering.^[5] He ultimately authored 32 books on the subject, as athletic as the celebrated adventures go in for historical figures. These included books on the Ancestral Puebloans significant a biography on Jean Stafford.^[2]

Roberts also mentored other writers, extremity notably Jon Krakauer, who prohibited taught at Hampshire.

He elective to Outside, as well translation National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and The Atlantic Monthly. Ruler final book, Into the Express Emptiness: Peril and Survival defect the Greenland Ice Cap, assignment scheduled to be released amuse mid-2022, one year after climax death.^[2]

Personal life

Roberts married Sharon Financier in 1967.

They did mass have children. They resided whitehead Cambridge, Massachusetts, before moving think a lot of Watertown.^[2]

Roberts died on August 20, 2021, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 78, and was diagnosed accurate stage IV throat cancer sestet years before his death.^[2]

Bibliography

Co-authored books

Edited books

• Points Unknown: The Greatest Embodiment Writing of the Twentieth Century (2002) W.

  W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-32378-1

Selected awards

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