John Hay is author of The Great Beach (winner of the John Burroughs Prize), The Run, and A Beginner's Faith in Things Unseen, among many other books. He lives in Brewster, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and in Bremen, Maine.
One of the most daring of contemporary writers in the genre.
--Norton Anthology of Nature Writing
"[Hay's] books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau,
Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston, and Rachel Carson." --Robert
Taylor, The Boston Globe
"Hay's new book, published in his 83rd year, is autumnal in spirit
and in substance. . . . The essence of this enterprise is a kind of
prayer, eloquent and deeply felt." --Richard Todd, Civilization
"[Hay] is, to my mind, without question this country's greatest
living nature writer. . . . He writes out of such a profoundly
poetic impulse that he cannot help but produce prose of a high
literary order." --Robert Finch, The Cape Codder
"Hay loses himself in details, describing the minute play of light
through grasses, the reflection of a water bug on the rocks of a
stream bottom, the fungi on fallen trees that begin to glow with an
eerie luminescence. . . . [He] is not only the observer of what
most of us don't see, but of what we may never get a chance to
see." --David Cline, Hartford Advocate
"In the Company of Light shares with considerable humility the
well-honed insights of a man rich in the wisdom of age and
observation of nature."--Nancy Grape, Maine Sunday Telegram
One of the most daring of contemporary writers in the genre.
--Norton Anthology of Nature Writing
"[Hay's] books about Cape Cod belong in the company of Thoreau,
Donald Culross Peattie, Henry Beston, and Rachel Carson." --Robert
Taylor, The Boston Globe
"Hay's new book, published in his 83rd year, is autumnal in spirit
and in substance. . . . The essence of this enterprise is a kind of
prayer, eloquent and deeply felt." --Richard Todd,
Civilization
"[Hay] is, to my mind, without question this country's greatest
living nature writer. . . . He writes out of such a profoundly
poetic impulse that he cannot help but produce prose of a high
literary order." --Robert Finch, The Cape Codder
"Hay loses himself in details, describing the minute play of light
through grasses, the reflection of a water bug on the rocks of a
stream bottom, the fungi on fallen trees that begin to glow with an
eerie luminescence. . . . [He] is not only the observer of what
most of us don't see, but of what we may never get a chance to
see." --David Cline, Hartford Advocate
"In the Company of Light shares with considerable humility
the well-honed insights of a man rich in the wisdom of age and
observation of nature."--Nancy Grape, Maine Sunday Telegram
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