biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1899–1980)
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| biography:
| Naturalist and writer, born in Joliet, Illinois, USA. The only child of a railroad mechanic, his lifelong interest in natural history grew out of childhood summers on his grandfather's N Indiana farm. He graduated from Earlham College in 1922 and was a staff writer for Popular Science magazine (1928–41). His first nature book was Grassroots Jungles (1937), and he helped promote an appreciation of the environment long before it became a cause. Wandering through Winter, the final volume in his natural history of the four seasons in America, won a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction in 1965. |
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