William Souder is an award-winning journalist and is the author of three books: Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, A Plague of Frogs (Hyperion, 2000), which follows the investigation of outbreaks of deformed frogs across North America, and On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson (Crown, 2012), which was published on the 50th anniversity of Carson's Silent Spring and was a New Yorek Times notable book of 2012. He lives in Grant, Minnesota.
John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America
By
William Souder
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
In the century and a half since John James Audubon’s death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a complicated figure he was—or the dramatic story behind The Birds of America—as revealed in this rich and gripping biography.
