David Quammen

David Quammen (1948 – ) is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer whose work has appeared in publications such as National Geographic, Outside, Harper's, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times Book Review. He wrote a column, called "Natural Acts", for Outside magazine for fifteen years. Quammen lives in Bozeman, Montana.

Biography

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, David Quammen was drawn to Montana in the early 1970's for the trout fishing. He graduated from St. Xavier High School. Quammen is a Yale graduate and former Rhodes Scholar; during his graduate studies at Oxford, he studied literature, concentrating on the works of William Faulkner.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature; 1985, Avon Books reprint 1996. ISBN 0-380-71738-7
• The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature; Scribner, 1988. ISBN 0-684-83626-2
• The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions; Scribner, 1996 (reprinted 1997). ISBN 0-684-82712-3
• Wild Thoughts From Wild Places; Scribner, 1999. ISBN 0-684-85208-X
• The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder; Scribner, 2001. ISBN 0-7432-0032-2
• Best American Science and Nature Writing 2000 (ed.); 2000.
• Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind; W.W. Norton and Company, 2003. ISBN 0-393-32609-8 (ISBN 0-393-05140-4)
• The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution (Great Discoveries), Jul 31, 2006, W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-05981-2

Articles

• "The Keys to Kingdom Come" Rolling Stone, Jun. 1987
• "Planet of Weeds" Harper's, Oct. 1998
• "The Post-Communist Wolf" Outside, 2000
• "Clone Your Troubles Away" Harper's, Feb. 2005
• "Contagious Cancer: The Evolution of a Killer" Harper's, Apr. 2008
• "Alfred Russell Wallace: The Man Who Wasn't Darwin" National Geographic, Dec. 2008
• "Darwin's First Clues" National Geographic, Feb. 2009

Fiction

• To Walk the Line, 1970.
• Walking Out, 1980.
• The Zolta Configuration, 1983.
• The Soul of Viktor Tronko, 1987.
• Blood Line: Stories of Fathers and Sons, 1988.

Awards

• Rhodes Scholarship
• Lannan Foundation Fellowship
• National Magazine Award (three times)
• New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism.
• Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Guggenheim Fellowship
• BP Natural World Book Prize (Great Britain)
• John Burroughs Medal for nature writing
• PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay
• Honorary doctorate from Montana State University

External links

• Author papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

• From the NPR Radio Show, Krulwich on Science, titled "Three Nice Things We Can Say About Mosquitoes", July 30, 2008

• From the NPR Radio Show the Bryant Park Project interview about his book "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin" on July 1, 2008

• From the NPR Radio Show, Krulwich on Science, titled "The Racing Asparagus" (promoting his Charles Darwin biography), September 20, 2006