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David Quammen

February 15, 2024

David Quammen (born February 24, 1948) is an American writer focusing on science, nature, and travel. He is the author of fifteen books. Quammen's articles have appeared in Outside Magazine, National Geographic, Harper's, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and other periodicals.

David Quammen
Born (1948-02-24) February 24, 1948 (age 75)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Alma materYale University (B.A., 1970)
University of Oxford (B.Litt., English, 1973)[1]
GenreNon-fiction
SpouseBetsy Gaines Quammen
Website
davidquammen.com

A collection of David Quammen's drafts, research, and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production, artifacts, maps, and other papers dated between 1856-2014.[2]

Early life and education edit

David Quammen was born on February 24, 1948 to W.A. and Mary Quammen.[3] He was raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1966. He attended and graduated from Yale University. In 1970 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, enabling him to study at University of Oxford.

During his graduate work at Oxford, he studied literature, concentrating on the works of American writer William Faulkner. After completing his education and publishing his first novel, he relocated to Bozeman, Montana. He has continued to live there with his wife, Betsy (Gaines) Quammen,[4] a conservation activist.[3]

Career edit

In the early 1970s, Quammen moved to Montana for trout fishing. In 1983, he finished The Soul of Viktor Tronko, a spy novel based on Russian historical events. A year later, the story collection Blood Line: Stories of Fathers and Sons was published. Following the commercial failure of his fictional works, Quammen began transitioning into a nonfiction writer.[5]

In 1981, Quammen began writing columns for Outside Magazine, and continued for fifteen years. Some of the columns from Outside Magazine and others contributed to Quammen's nonfiction books: Natural Acts (1985), The Flight of the Iguana (1988), Wild Thoughts from Wild Places (1998), and The Boilerplate Rhino (2000).[6]

Later in 1999, Quammen began to write a series of three stories following J. Michael Fay's 2000-mile hike through Central Africa for National Geographic. During this time, Quammen walked with Fay for eight weeks along African river basins. Quammen continued working with National Geographic, holding a Contributing Writer position, producing cover stories like "Was Darwin Wrong?" and "The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion."[7]

From 2007 to 2009, Quammen was employed as the Wallace Stegner Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University. Quammen received honorary doctorates from Montana State University and Colorado College. For his work, Quammen was awarded with a Rhodes Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction.[8]

His book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012) received two awards: the Science and Society Book Award, given by the National Association of Science Writers, and the Society of Biology (UK) Book Award in General Biology. In 2013, Spillover was shortlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.[9] The Song of the Dodo (Scribner, 1996), a study of the bird's extinction won the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing.[10]

Books edit

Non-fiction edit

External videos
  In Depth interview with Quammen, June 4, 2023, C-SPAN
  Presentation by Quammen on Monster of God, September 30, 2003, C-SPAN
  Presentation by Quammen on Spillover, October 12, 2012, C-SPAN
  Presentation by Quammen on The Tangled Tree, September 11, 2018, C-SPAN
  Presentation by Quammen on Breathless, October 25, 2022, C-SPAN
  Presentation by Quammen on Breathless, February 18, 2023, C-SPAN
  • Quammen, David. Natural Acts: a Sidelong View of Science and Nature. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
  • Quammen, David. The Flight of the Iguana: a Sidelong View of Science and Nature. New York: Delacorte Press, 1988.
  • Quammen, David. "Miracle of the Geese." Words from the Land: Encounters with Natural History Writing. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1988.
  • Quammen, David. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions. New York: Scribner, 1996.
  • Quammen, David. Wild Thoughts From Wild Places. New York: Scribner, 1999.
  • Quammen, David, ed. Best American Science and Nature Writing. Boston: Mariner Books, 2000.
  • Quammen, David. The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder. New York: Scribner, 2001.
  • Quammen, David. Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind. New York, W. W. Norton, 2003.
  • Quammen, David. Alexis Rockman. New York: Monacelli Press, 2004.
  • Quammen, David. The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
  • Quammen, David. The Kiwi's Egg: Charles Darwin and Natural Selection. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
  • Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. New York: Norton, 2012. ISBN 978-0-393-06680-7
  • Quammen, David. Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. New York: Norton, 2014.
  • Quammen, David. The Chimp and the River: How AIDS emerged from an African Forest. New York: Norton, 2015.
  • Quammen, David. Yellowstone: A Journey Through America's Wild Heart. National Geographic, 2016.
  • Quammen, David. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.
  • Quammen, David. Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2022.

Fiction edit

  • Quammen, David. "Walking Out,'" short story, 1980.[11]
  • Quammen, David. The Zolta Configuration. New York: Doubleday Books, 1983.
  • Quammen, David. To Walk the Line. New York: Pocket Books, 1985.
  • Quammen, David. The Soul of Viktor Tronko. New York: Dell,1987.
  • Quammen, David. Blood Line: Stories of Father and Sons. Boulder: Johnson Books, 1988.

Awards and accolades edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "How Rhodes Scholars Think: Interview with David Quammen", rhodesscholars.wordpress.com, October 17, 2007
  2. ^ "Texas Tech University :: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". swco.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  3. ^ a b "Quammen, David 1948- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  4. ^ "David Quammen fiction and non-fictions science writer. Author of Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic". www.davidquammen.com. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
  5. ^ "David Quammen's Biography". www.davidquammen.com. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  6. ^ "David Quammen's Biography". www.davidquammen.com. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  7. ^ "David Quammen's Biography". www.davidquammen.com. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  8. ^ "David Quammen's Biography". www.davidquammen.com. 19 March 2013. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  9. ^ . Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  10. ^ "Texas Tech University :: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". swco.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  11. ^ "Texas Tech University :: Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library". swco.ttu.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-22.
  12. ^ . 6 November 2013. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  13. ^ a b c . www.magazine.org. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  14. ^ "All Fellows - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  15. ^ American Academy of Arts and Letters – Award Winners 2008-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
  16. ^ Bp Natural World Book Prize 2012-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ "Past Winners of The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  18. ^ "Lannan Foundation". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  19. ^ "JBA Medal Award List". research.amnh.org. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  20. ^ MSU News Service – New Stegner professor to hit the ground running 2007-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
  21. ^ PEN American Center – 2001 Winners 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ . www.coloradocollege.edu. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  23. ^ . www.evolutionsociety.org. Archived from the original on 22 September 2013. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  24. ^ Bill Ott (June 30, 2013). Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Retrieved March 17, 2014 – via Booklist.
  25. ^ Annalisa Pesek (July 3, 2013). . Library Journal. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.
  26. ^ "ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals". Publishers Weekly. April 22, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2014.

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to David Quammen.
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Author papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
  • Video: David Quammen discussing Spillover, September 2012
  • NPR 'Fresh Air' interview New Coronavirus 'Won't Be The Last' Outbreak To Move From Animal To Human, Feb 5, 2020
  • From the NPR Radio Show, Krulwich on Science, titled "Three Nice Things We Can Say About Mosquitoes", July 30, 2008
  • From the NPR Radio Show the Bryant Park Project interview about his book "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin" on July 1, 2008
  • From the NPR Radio Show, Krulwich on Science, titled "The Racing Asparagus" (promoting his Charles Darwin biography), September 20, 2006
  • Books by David Quammen
  • "Walking Out" (1980) - full text at the Short Story Project

February 15, 2024
david, quammen, born, february, 1948, american, writer, focusing, science, nature, travel, author, fifteen, books, quammen, articles, have, appeared, outside, magazine, national, geographic, harper, rolling, stone, york, times, book, review, yorker, other, per. David Quammen born February 24 1948 is an American writer focusing on science nature and travel He is the author of fifteen books Quammen s articles have appeared in Outside Magazine National Geographic Harper s Rolling Stone The New York Times Book Review The New Yorker and other periodicals David QuammenBorn 1948 02 24 February 24 1948 age 75 Cincinnati OhioAlma materYale University B A 1970 University of Oxford B Litt English 1973 1 GenreNon fictionSpouseBetsy Gaines QuammenWebsitedavidquammen wbr comA collection of David Quammen s drafts research and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University s Southwest Collection Special Collections Library The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production artifacts maps and other papers dated between 1856 2014 2 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Books 3 1 Non fiction 3 2 Fiction 4 Awards and accolades 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksEarly life and education editDavid Quammen was born on February 24 1948 to W A and Mary Quammen 3 He was raised in the suburbs of Cincinnati Ohio and graduated from St Xavier High School in 1966 He attended and graduated from Yale University In 1970 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship enabling him to study at University of Oxford During his graduate work at Oxford he studied literature concentrating on the works of American writer William Faulkner After completing his education and publishing his first novel he relocated to Bozeman Montana He has continued to live there with his wife Betsy Gaines Quammen 4 a conservation activist 3 Career editIn the early 1970s Quammen moved to Montana for trout fishing In 1983 he finished The Soul of Viktor Tronko a spy novel based on Russian historical events A year later the story collection Blood Line Stories of Fathers and Sons was published Following the commercial failure of his fictional works Quammen began transitioning into a nonfiction writer 5 In 1981 Quammen began writing columns for Outside Magazine and continued for fifteen years Some of the columns from Outside Magazine and others contributed to Quammen s nonfiction books Natural Acts 1985 The Flight of the Iguana 1988 Wild Thoughts from Wild Places 1998 and The Boilerplate Rhino 2000 6 Later in 1999 Quammen began to write a series of three stories following J Michael Fay s 2000 mile hike through Central Africa for National Geographic During this time Quammen walked with Fay for eight weeks along African river basins Quammen continued working with National Geographic holding a Contributing Writer position producing cover stories like Was Darwin Wrong and The Short Happy Life of a Serengeti Lion 7 From 2007 to 2009 Quammen was employed as the Wallace Stegner Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University Quammen received honorary doctorates from Montana State University and Colorado College For his work Quammen was awarded with a Rhodes Scholarship a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction 8 His book Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic 2012 received two awards the Science and Society Book Award given by the National Association of Science Writers and the Society of Biology UK Book Award in General Biology In 2013 Spillover was shortlisted for the PEN E O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 9 The Song of the Dodo Scribner 1996 a study of the bird s extinction won the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing 10 Books editNon fiction edit External videos nbsp In Depth interview with Quammen June 4 2023 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Quammen on Monster of God September 30 2003 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Quammen on Spillover October 12 2012 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Quammen on The Tangled Tree September 11 2018 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Quammen on Breathless October 25 2022 C SPAN nbsp Presentation by Quammen on Breathless February 18 2023 C SPANQuammen David Natural Acts a Sidelong View of Science and Nature New York Schocken Books 1985 Quammen David The Flight of the Iguana a Sidelong View of Science and Nature New York Delacorte Press 1988 Quammen David Miracle of the Geese Words from the Land Encounters with Natural History Writing Salt Lake City Peregrine Smith Books 1988 Quammen David The Song of the Dodo Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions New York Scribner 1996 Quammen David Wild Thoughts From Wild Places New York Scribner 1999 Quammen David ed Best American Science and Nature Writing Boston Mariner Books 2000 Quammen David The Boilerplate Rhino Nature in the Eye of the Beholder New York Scribner 2001 Quammen David Monster of God The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind New York W W Norton 2003 Quammen David Alexis Rockman New York Monacelli Press 2004 Quammen David The Reluctant Mr Darwin An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution New York W W Norton 2006 Quammen David The Kiwi s Egg Charles Darwin and Natural Selection London Weidenfeld amp Nicolson 2007 Quammen David Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic New York Norton 2012 ISBN 978 0 393 06680 7 Quammen David Ebola The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus New York Norton 2014 Quammen David The Chimp and the River How AIDS emerged from an African Forest New York Norton 2015 Quammen David Yellowstone A Journey Through America s Wild Heart National Geographic 2016 Quammen David The Tangled Tree A Radical New History of Life New York Simon amp Schuster 2019 Quammen David Breathless The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus New York Simon amp Schuster 2022 Fiction edit Quammen David Walking Out short story 1980 11 Quammen David The Zolta Configuration New York Doubleday Books 1983 Quammen David To Walk the Line New York Pocket Books 1985 Quammen David The Soul of Viktor Tronko New York Dell 1987 Quammen David Blood Line Stories of Father and Sons Boulder Johnson Books 1988 Awards and accolades edit1970 Rhodes Scholarship 12 1987 National Magazine Award 13 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship 14 1994 National Magazine Award 13 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 15 1996 Natural World Book Prize 16 1997 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism 17 1997 Lannan Foundation Fellowship 18 1997 John Burroughs Medal for nature writing 19 2000 Honorary doctorate from Montana State University 20 2001 PEN Spielvogel Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay for The Boilerplate Rhino 21 2005 National Magazine Award 13 2009 Honorary doctorate from Colorado College 22 2012 The Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution 23 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction finalist for Spillover 24 25 26 See also editEdward AbbeyReferences edit How Rhodes Scholars Think Interview with David Quammen rhodesscholars wordpress com October 17 2007 Texas Tech University Southwest Collection Special Collections Library swco ttu edu Retrieved 2021 11 08 a b Quammen David 1948 Encyclopedia com www encyclopedia com Retrieved 2021 11 08 David Quammen fiction and non fictions science writer Author of Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic www davidquammen com Retrieved 2021 10 18 David Quammen s Biography www davidquammen com 19 March 2013 Retrieved 2021 11 08 David Quammen s Biography www davidquammen com 19 March 2013 Retrieved 2021 11 08 David Quammen s Biography www davidquammen com 19 March 2013 Retrieved 2021 11 08 David Quammen s Biography www davidquammen com 19 March 2013 Retrieved 2021 11 08 PEN E O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award 10 000 PEN America Archived from the original on 5 April 2016 Retrieved 17 April 2018 Texas Tech University Southwest Collection Special Collections Library swco ttu edu Retrieved 2021 11 08 Texas Tech University Southwest Collection Special Collections Library swco ttu edu Retrieved 2021 11 22 Rhodes Scholars Complete List 1903 2013 The Rhodes Scholarships 6 November 2013 Archived from the original on 6 November 2013 Retrieved 17 April 2018 a b c Winners and Finalists Database ASME www magazine org Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 Retrieved 17 April 2018 All Fellows John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Retrieved 17 April 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award Winners Archived 2008 10 13 at the Wayback Machine Bp Natural World Book Prize Archived 2012 10 25 at the Wayback Machine Past Winners of The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism The New York Public Library Retrieved 17 April 2018 Lannan Foundation Lannan Foundation Retrieved 17 April 2018 JBA Medal Award List research amnh org Retrieved 17 April 2018 MSU News Service New Stegner professor to hit the ground running Archived 2007 08 20 at the Wayback Machine PEN American Center 2001 Winners Archived 2012 06 26 at the Wayback Machine Recipients Academic Events Committee Colorado College www coloradocollege edu Archived from the original on 18 March 2014 Retrieved 17 April 2018 Society for the Study of Evolution www evolutionsociety org Archived from the original on 22 September 2013 Retrieved 17 April 2018 Bill Ott June 30 2013 Richard Ford and Timothy Egan Win Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Retrieved March 17 2014 via Booklist Annalisa Pesek July 3 2013 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Library Journal Archived from the original on March 18 2014 Retrieved March 17 2014 ALA Unveils 2013 Finalists for Andrew Carnegie Medals Publishers Weekly April 22 2013 Retrieved March 17 2014 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to David Quammen Appearances on C SPAN Author papers at Southwest Collection Special Collections Library Texas Tech University Video David Quammen discussing Spillover September 2012 NPR Fresh Air interview New Coronavirus Won t Be The Last Outbreak To Move From Animal To Human Feb 5 2020 From the NPR Radio Show Krulwich on Science titled Three Nice Things We Can Say About Mosquitoes July 30 2008 From the NPR Radio Show the Bryant Park Project interview about his book The Reluctant Mr Darwin on July 1 2008 From the NPR Radio Show Krulwich on Science titled The Racing Asparagus promoting his Charles Darwin biography September 20 2006 Books by David Quammen Walking Out 1980 full text at the Short Story Project Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Quammen amp oldid 1195768078, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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