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JOHN T. PRICE
Author
ABOUT JOHN T. PRICE
An award-winning author and teacher, John T. Price writes out of the wildish intersections of nature, family, community and spirit—with a special love for the prairies and oak-lands of his midwestern home. He lives with his family in the beautiful Loess Hills of western Iowa, and directs the English Dept. Creative Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Find out more about him here.
"If these trees could talk..."
-- Elie Wiesel
at Buchenwald, 2009
Goethe's Oak
A Holocaust Story
September, 2025; Ice Cube Press
A poignant, yet inspiring story that reimagines and honors the life of an extraordinary tree that once stood in a German concentration camp.
"This story is a meditation on nature, loss, rebirth, and time. Most of all, it's a treatise on how to be human."
-- Hope Edelman, best-selling author of The AfterGrief
ALL IS LEAF: ESSAYS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
June, 2022; U. of Iowa Press
PUBLICITY: Allison Means; allison-means@uiowa.edu
In this innovative creative nonfiction book, John explores a multitude of dramatic transformations, in his life and in the fragile world beyond.
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