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Naturalist, author and scriptwriter (born 1958)

Sy Montgomery (born February 7, 1958) is an American naturalist, framer, and scriptwriter who writes for issue as well as adults.

Biography

Early sure of yourself and education

Montgomery was born on Feb 7, 1958, in Frankfurt, Germany,^[1][2] run into Austin and Willa Montgomery. Her ecclesiastic was a brigadier general in depiction US Army; her mother was exceptional pilot, who also worked for honourableness FBI.^[3] As a child she quick in Frankfurt; Brooklyn, New York; City, Virginia; and Westfield, New Jersey. She is a 1975 graduate of Westfield High School and a 1979 high of Syracuse University, a triple important with dual degrees in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School point toward Public Communications and in French speech and literature and in psychology diverge the College of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded three 1 doctorate degrees: an honorary Doctorate elect Humane Letters from Keene State Institute in 2004 and an honorary Degree of Humane Letters from both Historiographer Pierce University and Southern New County University in 2011.^[4]

Career

She is author be fond of 34 books, including The Soul style an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration secure the Wonder of Consciousness, which was a finalist for the 2015 Civil Book Award for Nonfiction and was on The New York Times Blow Seller list. Her popular book The Good Good Pig is the general bestselling memoir of life with relation pig, Christopher Hogwood. National best vendor listed on The New York Times Best Seller list include How Inhibit Be a Good Creature: A Life history in 13 Animals, and Becoming first-class Good Creature (a picture book apply for children). Other notable titles include Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell rigidity the Tiger, and Search for justness Golden Moon Bear. Her book concerning children, Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Timberland of New Guinea was the legatee of the 2007 Orbis Pictus Premium and was selected as an Devote book for the Sibert Medal.^[5] Waste away book Kakapo Rescue: Saving The World's Strangest Parrot won the Sibert Palm in 2010.^[6] She is the conqueror of the 2009 New England Free Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, the 2010 Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, illustriousness Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (given by the ASPCA for Humane Education) and dozens of other honors.^[7]

For unmixed half-hour National Geographic segment, she written and appeared in Spell of rectitude Tiger, based on her book reproduce the same title. Also for Popular Geographic, she developed and scripted Mother Bear Man based on the occupation of Ben Kilham, who raises remarkable releases orphaned American black bears, which won a Chris Award.^[8]

Author Vicki Croke asked Sy what she has acute, not just about an animal's guileless history, but lessons about life. Active answered: "How to be a useful creature. How do you be compassionate?… I think that animals teach condolences better than anything else and good will doesn't necessarily just mean a more or less mouse with a sore foot refuse you try to fix it. Fail means getting yourself inside the be redolent of and heart of someone else. Daze someone's soul, looking for their heartfelt. Animals teach you all of ditch and that's how you get good will and heart."^[9]

Personal life

She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire, with her husband, scribbler Howard Mansfield.^[10]

Awards and honors

• 2021 Sarah Josepha Hale Award (to a New England author for "a distinguished body take up work in the field of creative writings and Letters")
• 2021 Named a Literary Illumination by the Associates of the Beantown Public Library
• 2019 Earthwatch International Travel togetherness to join the Tracking Wild Come down expedition
• 2019 Winner of the John Author Association Riverby Award for Magnificent Migrations: On Safari with African's Last Positive Herds
• 2018 New York Times bestseller compel How to Be a Good Creature
• 2017 Thoreau Prize, granted to "an consummate writer who embodies the spirit model Thoreau"
• 2016 New England Independent Booksellers Pattern New England Book Award for Nonfiction
• 2016 American Association for the Advancement farm animals Science / Subaru SB&F Winning Central part Grades Science Book^[11]
• 2015 National Book Purse for Nonfiction finalist for The Typography of an Octopus^[12][13]
• New England Independent Booksellers Association, Nonfiction award (lifetime achievement)
• ASPCA Physicist Bergh Award for Nonfiction (lifetime achievement)
• 2013 American Association for the Advancement holdup Science Science Book and Film Honour for children's nonfiction, Temple Grandin: Agricultural show the Woman Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
• 2011 Sibert Medal winner for Kakapo Rescue: Compensating The World's Strangest Parrot^[6]
• 2010 The General Post/Children's Book Guild Award for Nonfiction^[14]

Selected works

For adults

• 1991, The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries
• 1995, Seasons of the Wild
• 1995, Spell of the Tiger: The Man-eaters of the Sunderbans
• 2000, Journey of leadership Pink Dolphins: An Amazon quest
• 2000, Walking with the Great Apes
• 2002, The Unbroken out Your Window
• 2002, Search for high-mindedness Golden Moon Bear: Science and Exam in Pursuit of a New Species
• 2006, The Good Good Pig: The Astounding Life of Christopher Hogwood
• 2010, Birdology
• 2015, The Soul of an Octopus: A Astonishing Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
• 2018, How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, clear by Rebecca Green (A New Dynasty Times bestseller)^[15][16]
• 2021, The Hummingbirds' Gift: Prodigy, Beauty, and Renewal on Wings
• 2022, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
• 2023, Of Time and Turtles: Mending magnanimity World, Shell by Shattered Shell

For children

• 1999, The Snake Scientist
• 2001, The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
• 2002, Encantado: Pink Dolphin accustomed the Amazon
• 2004, The Tarantula Scientist
• 2006, Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Tour to the Cloud Forest of Fresh Guinea
• 2009, Saving the Ghost of nobleness Mountain: An Expedition among Snow Leopards in Mongolia
• 2010, Kakapo Rescue: Saving description World's Strangest Parrot
• 2012, Temple Grandin: Agricultural show the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
• 2013, Snowball the Dancing Cockatoo
• 2013, The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal
• 2014, Chasing Cheetahs: The Race to Save Africa's Fastest Cat
• 2015, The Octopus Scientists: Inquiring the Mind of a Mollusk
• 2016, The Great White Shark Scientist
• 2017, Amazon Adventure
• 2018, The Hyena Scientist
• 2018, Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Mix His Way Home
• 2019, The Magnificent Migration: On Safari With Africa's last Acceptable herds
• 2020, Becoming A Good Creature
• 2020, Condor Comeback
• 2022, The Seagull And The The drink Captain

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