than one's self." Notable family members His brother, Charles Krutch, was the renowned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) photographer. His uncle, Charles Christopher Krutch, was a painter known for his depiction of Smoky Mountain scenes. Death At the age of 76, Krutch died from colon cancer in Tucson, Arizona on May 22, 1970. One of the last interviews with Krutch before his death was conducted by Edward Abbey and appears in Abbey's 1988 book, One Life at a Time, Please (). Legacy Many of Krutch's manuscripts and typescripts are held by the University of Arizona, where the Joseph Wood Krutch Cactus Garden was named in his honor in 1980. Upon his death, The New York Times lauded Krutch in an editorial, declaring that concern for the environment by many young Americans "should turn a generation unfamiliar with Joseph Wood Krutch to a reading of his books with delight to themselves and profit to the world." Selected works Edgar Allan Poe: A Study in Genius (1926) The Modern Temper (1929) Experience and Art: Some Aspects of the Esthetics of Literature (1932) The American Drama Since 1918: An Informal History (1939) Samuel Johnson: A Biography (1944) Henry David Thoreau (1948) The Twelve Seasons (1949) A Kind of Pantheism The Saturday Review (10 June 1950) 33: 7–8, 30–34 The Desert Year (1951) The Best of Two Worlds (1953) The Measure of Man (1954) The Voice of the Desert (1954) The Great Chain of Life (1956) The Grand Canyon: Today and All Its Yesterdays (1957) The Sportsman or the Predator? A Damnable Pleasure The Saturday Review (August 17, 1957): pp. 8–10, 39–40. Concerning "killing for sport" Human Nature and the Human Condition (1959) The Forgotten Peninsula (1961) The World of Animals; A treasury of lore and literature by great writers and naturalists from the 5th century B.C. to the present (1961) More Lives Than One (1962) And Even If You Do; Essays on Man, Manners, and Machines (1967) The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch (anthology, University of Utah Press, 1995; ) References Further reading External links Finding aid to Joseph Wood Krutch papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 1893 births 1970 deaths 20th-century American biographers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers American environmentalists American male non-fiction writers American nature writers American naturalists American technology writers American theater critics Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Columbia University