Ed Quillen wrote roughly 2,751 columns, articles, essays, blog posts, and speeches. That’s more than two million words. Every week we feature a piece he penned during his 43-year writing career. This week’s selection, Tracing Colorado’s fiery history, was published July 7, 2002 in The Denver Post. Copyright ©2002 by Ed Quillen. All rights reserved. Colorado’s first recorded forest fire,
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Ed Quillen wrote roughly 2,751 columns, articles, essays, blog posts, and speeches. That’s more than two million words. Every week we feature a piece he penned during his 43-year writing career. This week’s selection, Is Big Brother watching at the checkout stand?, was published June 2, 1998 in The Denver Post. Copyright ©1998 by Ed Quillen. All rights reserved. Try
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Ed Quillen’s younger daughter Abby is editing the new anthology of his columns. Her essay, “Anthologizing,” appears in the January/February 2013 issue of Colorado Central Magazine. Here’s an excerpt: Anthologizing By Abby Quillen My four-year-old son Ezra takes a bite of his toast. “What happens when we die?” he asks after he swallows. I stare at my coffee. “I don’t
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Ryan Warner interviewed Ed Quillen for Colorado Matters on Colorado Public Radio after Ed and Martha Quillen sold Colorado Central Magazine in February 2009. Listen to the interview here. Or, listen to a June 7, 2012 interview with Columbine Quillen, Ed Quillen’s eldest daughter, about growing up with Ed Quillen. Tweet
Ed Quillen was a character in the full sense of the word—and a wordsmith of the first order, often contributing to The Bloomsbury Review–reviewing approximately 80 books for us over the years. And when he wielded his words, he took no prisoners. . . . Even over the space of almost 30 years, his remarkable insight, humor, and wisdom shines
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