American Philosophical Practitioners Association

ELAYNE WAREING FITZPATRICK, new APPA Adjunct Member, is an uprooted Utahn, re-rooted in California's idyllic Carmel Valley on the Big Sur-Monterey coast. Forthree decades, she has been an instructor in Humanities at Monterey PeninsulaCollege, as well as a freelance writer with a fondness for literary landscapes. This, after earlier careers in newspaper reporting, child-rearing, public television and university teaching in Salt Lake City.

Academic degrees in English and Philosophy have been less precious to her than an "Elayne the Farmer" title conferred by a Monterey newspaper columist. That's because she is a peasant at heart, preferring backroads to freeways. After a Zorba-actuated epiphany in Greece, she abandoned city life to build a redwood house and barn on a mountain acre in Carmel Valley which she shares with sheep, goats, and Shetland Sheepdogs.

Her master's thesis in Philosophy (University of Utah, 1968) was "The Existential Aspects of William James' Philosophy." She has recently authored two books, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON'S ETHICS FOR RASCALS and HENRY MILLER: DOING IT WITH THE COSMOS. Her feature articles have appeared in among other places, "The Illustrated London News Magazine," "Jeffers Studies," "Pacific Way," "Guest Life," "Monterey Bay Magazine," "The Salt Lake Tribune," and "Monterey Herald."

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