Sy Montgomery
Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, author and scriptwriter who writes for children as well as adults. She is author of more than 15 books, the most popular of which is The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood. Her other notable titles include Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell of the Tiger, and Search for the Golden Moon Bear. She has been described as "part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson".[1] Her book for children, Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea was the recipient of the 2007 Orbis Pictus Award and was selected as an Honor book for the ALA Sibert Award.[2]
Personal life
Sy Montgomery was born on February 7, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany.[3] She is a 1975 graduate of Westfield High School, Westfield, New Jersey, and a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French language and literature and in psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.[4]
She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire with her husband Howard Mansfield.[5]
Awards and honors
- New England Independent Booksellers Association, Nonfiction award (lifetime achievement)
- ASPCA Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (lifetime achievement)
- 2010 Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Award for Nonfiction[6]
- 2011 Sibert Medal winner for Kakapo Rescue
- 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlist for The Soul of an Octopus[7][8]
List of works
For adults:[9]
- The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
- Walking with Great Apes
- Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon quest
- Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics
- Birdology
- The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries
- Seasons of the Wild
- The Wild out of Your Window
- Spell of the Tiger: The Man-eaters of the Sunderbans
- The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
For children:[10]
- The Snake Scientist
- Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
- The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the cloud forest of New Guinea
- Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition among Snow Leopards in Mongolia
- The Tarantula Scientist
- The Man Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
- Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
- Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
- Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
- The Octopus Scientists: Exploring the Mind of a Mollusk
References
- ↑ http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/sy_montgomery/
- ↑ http://www.papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/montgomery.html
- ↑ http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/sy_montgomery/
- ↑ http://symontgomery.com/?page_id=29
- ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13364.Sy_Montgomery
- ↑ "Nonfiction Award - Previous Winners". childrensbookguild.org. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
- ↑ "2015 National Book Awards". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ Alter, Alexandra (19 November 2015). "Ta-Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award". The New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/13364.Sy_Montgomery
- ↑ http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/13364.Sy_Montgomery
External links
- Sy Montgomery at Library of Congress Authorities, with 27 catalog records
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