In 1980, DAVE FOREMAN resigned from his Wilderness Society job to create Earth First!, a radical action group inspired by Abbey's books, specifically The Monkey Wrench Gang. INGRID EISENSTADTER, one of the more elusive members of Abbey’s circle, Eisenstadter is a former dancer from the Bronx and was Abbey’s girlfriend while writing 'The Monkey Wrench Gang,' inspiring the character of Bonnie Abzug. Coined a “paper” monkeywrencher, he has fueled a new generation of activists. Tim was convicted of two felonies in district court and is currently serving his two-year sentence. TIM DeCHRISTOPHER outbid big oil and gas companies in an illegal bidding auction of land around Moab, Utah. Abbey chronicled their friendship in an essay entitled My Friend Debris and it is known that De Puy was the inspiration for Abbey’s character, Doc Sarvis. De Puy is an expressionist painter with degrees from Columbia and Oxford Universities. JOHN DE PUY was a lifelong friend of writer and activist Edward Abbey. Wrenched is pleased to have permission to use select R. Crumb's illustrations were also used for a limited-edition calendar based on the book. The book was released in 1985 by Ken Sanders at Dream Garden Press. CRUMB subversive cartoonist and satirist, Crumb illustrated the 10th anniversary edition of The Monkey Wrench Gang. Bowden is a contributing editor for GQ and Mother Jones, and also writes for Harper’s, Esquire, The New York Times, Book Review, and Aperture.

His most riotous novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, depicts a small gang of monkey-wrenchers, non-violent (to people) but not so forgiving to earth-destroying bulldozers, maniacal dam builders and to the countless billboards littering the landscape.ĬHARLES BOWDEN is the author of eleven books, including his most recent, Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and The Global Economy’s New Killing Fields.

His stories warn about the consequences of over-development, particularly in the Southwest. EDWARD ABBEY was a novelist referred to as the 'Thoreau of the American West.' Infamous for his views on the environment and his criticism of public land policies, Abbey emerged from the early sixties conservationist writers with a uniquely sharp wit and sardonic sense of humor.

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