Sanctuary magazine

Biography

John Hanson Mitchell
John has been editor of Sanctuary magazine since its founding in 1980. He is also author of ten books on environmental and social history, the best known of which is Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile (Doubleday 1984). His most recent book, The Paradise of All These Parts: A Natural History of Boston (Beacon 2008) is based on an issue of Sanctuary. Before coming to Mass Audubon, he worked as a freelance journalist with a number of overseas assignments. In 2000, he won the New England Book Award for the body of his work, and in 1994 he won the John Burroughs Essay Award for his Sanctuary story "Of Time and the River." He lives on Scratch Flat in Littleton where he maintains an extensive garden in the Italian style, the subject of one of his books.