Ted Levin

As a lifelong naturalist and Yankee fan, I follow a trail blazed by John Burroughs and John Muir, neither of whom paid much attention to baseball. My work has appeared in Audubon, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, National Wildlife, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Books, The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph. I am the author of Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist (1987), Blood Brook: A Naturalist's Home Ground (1992), and Liquid Land: A Journey Through the Florida Everglades (2003), among other works of nonfiction. I received the Burroughs Medal in 2004, the highest literary honor awarded to an American nature writer.

E. O. Wilson called America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake (2016) "a beautifully written book [that] demonstrates just how good nature literature can be."

Louise Erdrich wrote, "Blood Brook" will enlarge any world, enrich any view, and can help to connect us humanly with the great and ongoing mysteries of our surroundings. I love "Blood Brook."