Delia Owens is the coauthor of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa.
Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel..
She lives in the mountains of North Carolina.
She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and International Wildlife , among many others.
She holds a BS in Zoology from the University of Georgia and a PhD in Animal Behavior from the University of California at Davis.
Delia Owens is the coauthor of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa