Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist, with particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie, agriculture and poverty. He writes frequently about trauma and poverty for the National Native Children's Trauma Center based at the University of Montana, where he is a senior research associate. (www.goodworksintrauma.org) He is the author of eight books, and his articles have been published in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon Mountains, Elk, and Sprawl and The Bloomsbury Review Richard Manning - Penguin Group (USA) Authors - Penguin Group (USA).
Manning worked as a journalist, reporter and editor for more than 30 years Austin College. Sherman, Texas, including four years at the Missoulian. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from Stanford University. Knight Fellowships Class of 1995 He is a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and has also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award 1992 - Richard Manning in 1992.
He lives in Missoula, Montana with his wife, Tracy Stone-Manning.