David Rains Wallace
David Rains Wallace is an author of more than sixteen books on conservation and natural history, including The Monkey's Bridge (a 1997 New York Times Notable Book) and The Klamath Knot (1984 Burroughs Medal).[1][2] He has written articles for the National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and other groups. Wallace's work also has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, Sierra, and other periodicals.[3][4]
He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1945. Wallace received a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and a master's from Mills College in Oakland, California.[3] He also undertook graduate work at Columbia University.[5] Wallace lives in Berkeley, California.
Works
- Travels in Alaska, (1979) Introduction
- The Klamath Knot (1983)
- The Turquoise Dragon, (1985)
- The Untamed Garden and Other Personal Essays, (1986)
- The Quetzal and the Macaw, (1992)
- Nature Travel, (1995) with Susanne Methvin and Dwight Holing, Time Life Education
- The Bonehunter's Revenge, (1999)
- The Monkey's Bridge: Mysteries of Evolution in Central America (2007), Trinity University Press
- Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution (2005) [6]
- Neptune's Ark, (2008) University of California Press
- Articulate Earth: Adventures in Ecocriticism (2014) [7][8]
Awards
- The Klamath Knot was the winner of the 1984 John Burroughs Medal, among other awards.[9][10]
- The Monkey's Bridge was a 1997 New York Times Notable Book.
References
- ↑ http://hmhbooks.com/catalog/authordetail.cfm?authorID=2233449
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/David-Rains-Wallace/e/B000APEPB0
- 1 2 http://archive.mailtribune.com/archive/98/oct98/101498n6.htm
- ↑ http://www.conservationmagazine.org/who/
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=e4MO_IDML7sC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=%22David+Rains+Wallace%22+and+%22Mills+college%22&source=bl&ots=3e9P5_l-L0&sig=QhVS1G-M1_RYQTxJvT9POqKJvJI&hl=en&ei=sMcGTfjHJ4yr8AaTr-neCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22David%20Rains%20Wallace%22%20and%20%22Mills%20college%22&f=false
- ↑ http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520246843
- ↑ "Backcountry Press". Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ↑ List of David Rain's Works, retrieved 2009-10-13
- ↑ "List of Award Recipients". Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ↑ http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520236592
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