Significant Events in Eiseley's Life   The History of Loren Eiseley By Amanda Stahlnecker September 3, 1907. Loren Corey Eiseley born in Lincoln, Nebraska 1913. Enters 1st grade at Prescott Elementary in Lincoln 1910-1920. Family moves frequently in Nebraska   1910-1920. Develops interest in skull collection in University of Nebraska State Museum and in biology 1922-1923. Attends Lincoln High School 1923. Enters Teacher College High School at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln June 4, 1925. Graduates from Teachers College High School September 15, 1925. Enters the University of Nebraska 1927. First piece of poetry published in the Prairie Schooner   1927. Named to the Prairie Schooner editorial staff 1928. Drops out of the University to work in the poultry business March 30, 1928. Father, Clyde Edwin Eiseley, dies in a Lincoln hospital   1928. Resumes studies at the University of Nebraska 1929. Drops out of the University because of tuberculosis 1929. Named editor of the Prairie Schooner 1929-1930. Spends time in the Colorado Rockies 1930. Recuperates on a ranch in Mohave Desert 1930. Resumes studies at the University of Nebraska 1931. Becomes a member of the South Party (paleontology at Morrill Hall) 1931-1933. Morrill Hall Paleontological Expeditions, University of Nebraska   June 5, 1933. Graduates from the University of Nebraska with a double major in English and sociology (with concentration in anthropology) September 30, 1933. Enrolls in the graduate program in anthropology at University of Pennsylvania   1934. Member of the University of Pennsylvania-Carnegie Expedition to the Southwest in search of Early Man 1935. Completes M.A. in anthropology at University of Pennsylvania 1935. Co-authors first professional article with Bertrand Schultz   1935-1936. Returns to study in graduate school at University of Nebraska for two semesters 1936. Joins the Nebraska WPA Federal Writers' Project and contributes to "Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State" 1937. Appointed Assistant Professor of anthropology and sociology at the University of Kansas August 29, 1938. Marries Mabel Langdon in Albuquerque, New Mexico   1940. Awarded Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship 1942. Begins writing natural history essays for popular periodicals 1944-1947. Head of the Department of Anthropology at Oberlin College in Ohio 1947. Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania   1949. Elected President of the American Institute of Human Paleontology 1957. First book is published: Immense Journey 1958. DarwinÕs Century is awarded the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for best book in science 1961. Awarded the John Burroughs Medal and the LeComte du Nouy Award for the Firmament of Time 1959-1961. Appointed Provost at the University of Pennsylvania after which he was named the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science 1969-1977. Published several volumes of personal essays and poetry, including The Invisible Pyramid, The Unexpected Universe, The Night Country, Notes of an Alchemist, The Star Thrower, and Another Kind of Autumn 1971. Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters 1975. His autobiography, All the Strange Hours, is published July 9, 1977. Loren Eiseley died 1979. Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X, and All the Night Wings published posthumously July 27, 1986. Mabel Eiseley died 1987. The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley published posthumously   Even though he is gone, his legacy continues!