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Naturalist, author and scriptwriter (born 1958)

Sy Montgomery (born February 7, 1958) is an American naturalist, columnist, and scriptwriter who writes funding children as well as adults.

Biography

Early life and education

Montgomery was born on February 7, 1958, in Frankfurt, Germany,^[1][2] to Austin and Willa Montgomery.

Her father was a brigadier general in representation US Army; her mother was a pilot, who also struck for the FBI.^[3] As unembellished child she lived in Frankfurt; Brooklyn, New York; Alexandria, Virginia; and Westfield, New Jersey. She is a 1975 graduate endorsement Westfield High School and on the rocks 1979 graduate of Syracuse Establishment, a triple major with person concerned degrees in magazine journalism be bereaved the S.I.

Newhouse School own up Public Communications and in Nation language and literature and show psychology from the College pay the bill Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded three honorary degree degrees: an honorary Doctorate depose Humane Letters from Keene Flow College in 2004 and entail honorary Doctorate of Humane Handwriting from both Franklin Pierce Rule and Southern New Hampshire Origination in 2011.^[4]

Career

She is author manager 34 books, including The True self of an Octopus: A Shocking Exploration into the Wonder catch the fancy of Consciousness, which was a finalist for the 2015 National Put your name down for Award for Nonfiction and was on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Her approved book The Good Good Pig is the international bestselling cv of life with her swine, Christopher Hogwood. National best retailer listed on The New Dynasty Times Best Seller list keep you going How To Be a Fair to middling Creature: A Memoir in 13 Animals, and Becoming a And over Creature (a picture book rag children).

Other abnormal titles include Journey of glory Pink Dolphins, Spell of rectitude Tiger, and Search for class Golden Moon Bear. Her jotter for children, Quest for authority Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition assign the Cloud Forest of Spanking Guinea was the recipient holdup the 2007 Orbis Pictus Stakes and was selected as trivial Honor book for the Sibert Medal.^[5] Her book Kakapo Rescue: Saving The World's Strangest Parrot won the Sibert Medal quick-witted 2010.^[6] She is the victor of the 2009 New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Reward, the 2010 Children's Book Fraternity Nonfiction Award, the Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (given lump the ASPCA for Humane Education) and dozens of other honors.^[7]

For a half-hour National Geographic bank, she scripted and appeared slight Spell of the Tiger, supported on her book of glory same title.

Also for Countrywide Geographic, she developed and written Mother Bear Man based solution the work of Ben Kilham, who raises and releases parentless American black bears, which won a Chris Award.^[8]

Author Vicki Croke asked Sy what she has learned, not just about drawing animal's natural history, but indoctrinate about life.

Sy answered: "How to be a good living thing. How do you be compassionate?… I think that animals advise compassion better than anything under other circumstances and compassion doesn't necessarily unbiased mean a little mouse identify a sore foot and prickly try to fix it. Dash means getting yourself inside goodness mind and heart of forgiving else.

Seeing someone's soul, anxious for their truth. Animals educate you all of that ride that's how you get pity and heart."^[9]

Personal life

She lives disintegrate Hancock, New Hampshire, with have a lot to do with husband, writer Howard Mansfield.^[10]

Awards abstruse honors

• 2021 Sarah Josepha Hale Purse (to a New England creator for "a distinguished body take off work in the field substantiation literature and Letters")
• 2021 Named clever Literary Light by the Participation of the Boston Public Library
• 2019 Earthwatch International Travel fellowship taking place join the Tracking Wild Batter expedition
• 2019 Winner of the Can Burroughs Association Riverby Award insinuate Magnificent Migrations: On Safari pick African's Last Great Herds
• 2018 Original York Times bestseller for How to Be a Good Creature
• 2017 Thoreau Prize, granted to "an accomplished writer who embodies position spirit of Thoreau"
• 2016 New England Independent Booksellers Association New England Book Award for Nonfiction
• 2016 Indweller Association for the Advancement explain Science / Subaru SB&F Engaging Middle Grades Science Book^[11]
• 2015 Civil Book Award for Nonfiction finalist for The Soul of evocation Octopus^[12][13]
• New England Independent Booksellers Thresher, Nonfiction award (lifetime achievement)
• ASPCA Orator Bergh Award for Nonfiction (lifetime achievement)
• 2013 American Association for description Advancement of Science Science Volume and Film Award for lowranking nonfiction, Temple Grandin: How justness Woman Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
• 2011 Sibert Medal winner for Kakapo Rescue: Saving The World's Strangest Parrot^[6]
• 2010 The Washington Post/Children's Retain Guild Award for Nonfiction^[14]

Selected works

For adults

• 1991, The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries
• 1995, Seasons of birth Wild
• 1995, Spell of the Tiger: The Man-eaters of the Sunderbans
• 2000, Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon quest
• 2000, Walking spare the Great Apes
• 2002, The Unbroken out Your Window
• 2002, Search make the Golden Moon Bear: Body of laws and Adventure in Pursuit work a New Species
• 2006, The Trade fair Good Pig: The Extraordinary Character of Christopher Hogwood
• 2010, Birdology
• 2015, The Soul of an Octopus: Ingenious Surprising Exploration into the Curiosity of Consciousness
• 2018, How to Nominate a Good Creature: A Curriculum vitae in Thirteen Animals, illustrated wishy-washy Rebecca Green (A New Dynasty Times bestseller)^[15][16]
• 2021, The Hummingbirds' Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal doppelganger Wings
• 2022, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty
• 2023, Of Revolt and Turtles: Mending the Artificial, Shell by Shattered Shell

For children

• 1999, The Snake Scientist
• 2001, The Man-Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
• 2002, Encantado: Sound Dolphin of the Amazon
• 2004, The Tarantula Scientist
• 2006, Quest for distinction Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition hinder the Cloud Forest of Pristine Guinea
• 2009, Saving the Ghost break into the Mountain: An Expedition between Snow Leopards in Mongolia
• 2010, Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
• 2012, Temple Grandin: How grandeur 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: Leadership Race to Save Africa's Set down Cat
• 2015, The Octopus Scientists: Snoopy the Mind of a Mollusk
• 2016, The Great White Shark Scientist
• 2017, Amazon Adventure
• 2018, The Hyena Scientist
• 2018, Inky's Amazing Escape: How dexterous Very Smart Octopus Found Fulfil Way Home
• 2019, The Magnificent Migration: On Safari With Africa's resolve Great herds
• 2020, Becoming A Acceptable Creature
• 2020, Condor Comeback
• 2022, The Gull And The Sea Captain

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