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Benjamin Hoff

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Benjamin Hoff (born 1946) is the author of several books on Taoism, including his bestselling The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. Hoff grew up in West Haven-Sylvan, Oregon|Sylvan, Oregon, where he acquired a fondness of the natural world that has been highly influential in his writing.

A graduate of The Evergreen State College, Hoff obtained a B.A. in Asian Art in 1973. Prior to his career in writing, he worked as a tree pruner, antiques restorer, hospital orderly, investigative reporter, photojournalist, recording musician, singer, and songwriter. In his spare time, he practices Taoist yoga and T'ai Chi Ch'uan.



Hoff was awarded the American Book Award in 1988 for The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow: The Rediscovered Diary of Opal Whiteley.



  • 1981 The Way to Life (Weatherhill)

  • 1982 The Tao of Pooh (Dutton)

  • 1986 The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow (Houghton Mifflin)

  • 1993 The Te of Piglet (Dutton)

  • 2002 The House on the Point (Minotaur Books)


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Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Thomson Gale, 2004.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Benjamin Hoff".


Last Modified:   2005-11-04


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