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  3. References

{{short description|American author and zoologist (b. 1949)}}Delia Owens (c. 1949)[1] is an American author and zoologist. As of April 2019, her debut novel Where the Crawdads Sing has topped the The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2019 for ten out of fifteen weeks.{{cn|date=April 2019}} She also has written memoirs, Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna, with her then-husband, Mark, about their time studying animals in Africa.[2]

Biography

Owens grew up in rural Georgia in the 1950s.[3] She and her husband, Mark Owens, were graduate students in biology at the University of Georgia. They moved to Africa in 1974, did work in North Luangwa National Park, and also worked later in Mpika, Zambia in the early 1990s.[1] ABC aired a report in 1996 entitled “Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story,” produced by Andrew Tkach and hosted by Meredith Vieira. The report featured the controversial killing of a poacher.[1][4] She later settled in Boundary County, Idaho.[1]

See also

  • Biology in fiction#Ethology – fictional animal behaviour, as exemplified by the account in Where the Crawdads Sing

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=The Hunted|year=2010|publisher=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/04/05/the-hunted}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Delia Owens, Who Suffused Her African Memoirs With Lush Natural Detail, Turns to Fiction|year=2018|publisher=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/books/review/where-the-crawdads-sing-delia-owens.html}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=With ‘Where the Crawdads Sing,’ a Debut Novel Goes Big|year=2018|publisher=Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/with-where-the-crawdads-sing-a-debut-novel-goes-big-1542031755}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=A Killing in Zambia|year=2010|publisher=The New York Times|url=https://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/a-killing-in-zambia/}}
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