William W. Warner
William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008)[1][2] was an American biologist and writer. He was awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his first book Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, which was based on his experiences living and working among crab fishermen on the Chesapeake.
Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University.[2] During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.[2]
Works
- Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay (1976)
- Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman (1983)
- Into the Porcupine Cave and Other Odysseys: Adventures of an Occasional Naturalist (1999, short stories)
- At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787–1860 (1994)
References
- ^ Obituary in The New York Times.
- ^ a b c Holley, Joe (April 30, 2008), "William Warner; Wrote Classic On Chesapeake", The Washington Post, Washington, D,C, p. Obituaries
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- Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler (1976)
- Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977)
- The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978)
- On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979)
- Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1980)
- Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl Emil Schorske (1981)
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982)
- Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983)
- The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984)
- The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985)
- Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986)
- Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987)
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988)
- A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989)
- And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
- The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991)
- The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992)
- Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993)
- Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994)
- The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995)
- The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
- Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998)
- Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
- Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)
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