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David Quammen is an award-winning science, nature and travel writer whose writing 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 Montana.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Non-Fiction 2.2 Fiction 3 Awards 3.1 External Links

Biography

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, David Quammen was drawn to Montana 28 years ago for the trout fishing. He is a Yale graduate and former Rhodes Scholar, studied literature-William Faulkner-during his graduate studies at Oxford.

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

• The Flight of the Iguana: a Sidelong View of Science and Nature, 1988.
• Miracle of the Geese Words from the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing, 1988.
• Natural Acts: a Sidelong View of Science and Nature, 1985.
• The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, 1996.
• Wild Thoughts From Wild Places, 1998.
• Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2001.
• Monsters of God, 2003.

Fiction

• The Soul of Viktor Tronko: a Novel, 1986.

Awards

• Rhodes scholar
• Lannan Foundation Fellowship
• National Magazine Award (twice)
• 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, the BP Natural World Book Prize (Great Britain), the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award, the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay, and an honorary doctorate from Montana State University

External Links

• Inventory of His Papers at Tech Tech--[[1]]

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