![]() ![]() "Raven's Exile" won the Whiting Foundation Writer's Award as well as the Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America. "My husband and I took a series of river trips, with lots of quiet time to observe." "I had written a lot of notes on that beautiful and very wild canyon," she told the Deseret News in Salt Lake City in 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() The idea for the book came after she saw Desolation Canyon in eastern Utah as part of that trip. Bureau of Land Management who patrolled the river for a time. She explored it with her husband, Mark, a ranger with the U.S. "Raven's Exile: A Season on the Green River" (1994) recounts her experiences traveling the river through Utah, Colorado and Wyoming. Meloy used the Southwest as the setting and subject for what she referred to as "land-based literature." In her three highly regarded collections of essays, Mrs. "On a simple walk along a riverbank with Ellen, she'd pick up things none of the rest of us got," he said. Her essays called attention to the beauty of her state, even for longtime residents, Lebeda said. "Ellen was very well- known in the state." "The literary community of Utah is in shock," said Guy Lebeda, literature coordinator for the Utah Arts Council in Salt Lake City. ![]()
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