Delia Owens

(1949-04-04) April 4, 1949

  • Author
  • zoologist
  • conservationist

University of Georgia (BS)
University of California, Davis (PhD)

Where the Crawdads Sing (2018)
Cry of the Kalahari (1984)

1981 – for Kalahari Research Project (with former husband, Mark Owens)[18]

Rolex Award for Enterprise

1985 – John Burroughs Award (with Mark Owens)

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1993 – Outstanding Alumnus Award[18]

University of California

1994 – [18]

Order of the Golden Ark (Netherlands)

(2018)

Where the Crawdads Sing

– animal behavior in fiction, as exemplified by the account in Where the Crawdads Sing

Ethology in fiction

. YouTube. UW Video. February 14, 2014; Marcia Alvar's 1992 interview of Delia Owens{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

"Elephants Under Fire, Upon Reflection, 1992 UWTV Classics"

. YouTube. Politics and Prose. September 22, 2019.

"Delia Owens, "Where the Crawdads Sing""