David Quammen

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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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Non-Fiction 2.2 Fiction 3 Awards 4 External links

[edit] 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.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] 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 2001 (ed.); 2001.
• 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
• 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

• "Planet of Weeds" Harper's, Oct. 1998
• "Clone Your Troubles Away" Harper's, Feb. 2005

[edit] Fiction

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

[edit] 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

[edit] External links

• Inventory of His Papers at Tech Tech--[1]
• NPR Radio Show on "The Racing Asparagus" (promoting his Charles Darwin biography)--[2]