David Quammen

David Quammen

David Quammen (born February 1948) is a 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.

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Biography

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, David Quammen was drawn to Montana in the early 1970s for the trout fishing. He graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1966.[1] 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
  • "Was Darwin Wrong?" National Geographic, Nov. 2004
  • "Clone Your Troubles Away" Harper's, Feb. 2005
  • "An Endangered Idea" National Geographic, Oct. 2006
  • "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

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