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Sy Montgomery is a published author who has been described by The New York Times as being one of the ‘finest chroniclers’ of the natural world.

She was born in Frankfurt, Germany on February 7, 1958. Her father worked as a brigadier general in the US Army and her mother was a pilot and worked for the FBI. As a youngster, Sy lived in Germany, New York, Virginia, and New Jersey.

She is a naturalist, author, documentary scriptwriter, and radio commentator. She has been to some of the most remote wilderness locations in the world for her work. She has been in a pit of thousands of snakes in Manitoba, been in India where a tiger hunted her, swam with pink dolphins in the Amazon river, and met an orangutan in Borneo.

She has written over a dozen books, some of which have won awards. This extends to The Good Good Pig, a best-selling memoir. Today she resides in Hancock, New Hampshire.

In order to research various articles, films, and books, Sy has put up with a lot. She has been to Costa Rica where she was bitten by a vampire bat, chased by a gorilla in Zaire, handled a tarantula in French Guiana, and more. She has also looked for snow leopards in the Altai Mountains, hiked into Papua New Guinea’s cloud forest to radio collar tree kangaroos, and even learned how she could scuba dive so that she could get to know octopi better.

Sy has written multiple books intended both for children and adults. Her book The Soul of an Octopus was a finalist in 2015 for the National Book Awards. Her book about her life with her pig became an international bestseller. She has won the 2009 New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, as well as the 2010 Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award. She has also won the Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction and many other awards.

The work that she did with tigers who eat men called Spell of the Tiger was adapted into a television documentary for National Geographic that she wrote the script for as well as narrated. She also chose to develop and script Mother Bear Man for National Geographic TV, which was about Ben Kilham’s work raising and releasing bear cubs who have been orphaned. It won a Chris Award.

The author is able to write for children and adults, for broadcast, for print, and for America and globally. She wants to reach as many people as possible during this point in the course of human history. Sy thinks that we are either ‘on the cusp’ of destroying the Earth or revolutionizing the way we understand creation. She also speaks on a regular basis at museums, schools, libraries, and universities.

Sy graduated from Syracuse University in 1979, grabbing her degrees in magazine journalism, French language and literature as well as psychology. She also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters in 2004 from Keene State College. She also received an honorary doctorate of humane letters in 2011 from Franklin Pierce University and from Southern New Hampshire University.

Sy is the recipient of the 2021 Sarah Josepha Hale Award. She also was named a Literary Light in 2021 by the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She received an Earthwatch International Travel Fellowship in 2019. She received a Riverby Award for children’s literature in 2019 from the John Burroughs Association for her book The Magnificent Migration. She also received the Thoreau Prize in 2017 for embodying Thoreau’s spirit.

Sy has appeared on CBS Sunday Morning to promote The Soul of an Octopus in 2020 and on the Clear and Vivid podcast by Alan Alda to promote the book, as well as The Ezra Klein Show podcast. The author was also a monthly guest contributor to “The Afternoon Zoo” on Boston Public Radio. She has also reviewed books for The American Scholar and The New York Times.

Sy Montgomery also wrote the television movies Hunt of the Golden Jackel and Africa’s Flying Hooves. She is married to her husband, Howard Mansfield, a writer. They reside in Hancock, New Hampshire.

The Hawk’s Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty is a nonfiction book from Sy Montgomery. This is a book that is great for any animal lover. Pick up a copy and read all about one of the most amazing creatures in nature.

Sy went to Nancy Cowan’s farm to spend a day there with the falconer. It was the place where a dozen birds of prey lived and it started a unique love in Sy for the animal. Nancy let her work with the four year old hawk Jazz, a female bird with a long wingspan. She was a fierce bird but was still able to work with a human for hunting.

Sy was hooked by the hawk from the second that she came down and alighted on Sy’s fist, covered in a leather glove. The author would spend more time over the years with these animals, starting to know more about their instincts and abilities.

These creatures are emotional and can hold grudges, but also take in their surroundings and are loyal creatures. With photographs and more, Sy lets the reader into a unique world and shows us why hawks are so fascinating.

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell is a book from Sy Montgomery. If you love turtles, then give this book a look!

They live a long time and they also seem to be a fan favorite among many animal lovers out there. Sy went to the Turtle Rescue League along with Matt Patterson, a wildlife artist. There they find many turtles, all that are getting better from being ill and injured.

They’ve faced down everything from pollution to highways to cars and poachers. Some of them had wounds so bad that vets would have said that they were fatal. Now they’re getting a second chance at life.

The founders of the League are devoted to their care and their creed is to never give up on a turtle. These majestic creatures can be traced back to when the dinosaurs live. Some can live 200 years. They can live under cold water in the winter for months.

Sy Montgomery tries to understand how these creatures can teach us more about making peace with time and other subjects. Covering how to protect turtle nests, incubate the eggs, rescue the sea turtles, and set the hatchlings loose to the wild, and more, Montgomery takes the reader along and shows us what makes these creatures so special. Check out Of Time and Turtles and get in on all of the turtle fun!