Jon Mooallem - Nature, Environment
Journalist and writer Jon Mooallem, a recent
transplant from California, is the author of
Wild Ones: A Sometimes
Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals
in America (2014). The book has won numerous awards, among them Best
Book of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review. Mooallem says about his
book that he has watched his little daughter’s world overflow with cute
depictions of animals - while the actual world she’s inheriting slides into a
great storm of extinction. Half of all species could disappear by the end of
the century. Mooallem decides to venture into the field, often taking his
daughter with him, to move beyond childlike fascination and make those
creatures feel more real.
Wild Ones is a tour through our environment
and the eccentric cultural history of people and wild animals in America that
reflects it. With propulsive curiosity and searing wit, and without easy
moralizing, the book merges reportage, science, and history into an endearing
meditation on what it means to live in, and bring a life into a broken
world. Mooallem is also the author of
American Hippopotamus (ebook
2013), and a contributing writer to
The New York Times Magazine,
The
New Yorker,
Harper's,
Wired, and many other
magazines. For more information go to
https://jonmooallem.com/.
