Peter King Lourie (born in

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

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) is an author of nonfiction books for adults and children.

Biography

Born in

Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Washtenaw County. The 2020 United States census, 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor ...

, Lourie graduated from Collegiate School in New York City. He received his bachelor's degree in classics from

NYU New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-United States Secretary of the Treasu ...

, an MA in English Literature at the

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine or UMO) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universities, flagshi ...

, and an MFA in nonfiction writing at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

. He has taught at Columbia College, University of Vermont, University of Maine, and

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

where he teaches environmental and adventure/travel writing & digital storytelling. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, and in 2019 was elected a Fellow at the Explorers Club. Lourie is married with two children.

Bibliography

*''Locked in Ice! Nansen’s Daring Quest for the North Pole'' *''Jack London and the Klondike Gold Rush'' *''The Polar Bear Scientists'' (Scientists in the Field series) *''The Manatee Scientists: Saving Vulnerable Species'' (Scientists in the Field series) *''Writing to Explore: Discovering Adventure in the Research Paper, 3-8'' *''Whaling Season: A Year in the Life of an Arctic Whale Scientist'' (Scientists in the Field series) *''On the Texas Trail of Cabeza de Vaca'' *''Arctic Thaw: The People of the Whale in a Changing Climate'' *''Hidden World of the

Aztec The Aztecs () were a Mesoamerican culture that flourished in central Mexico in the post-classic period from 1300 to 1521. The Aztec people included different Indigenous peoples of Mexico, ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those g ...

'' *''Lost Treasures of the

Inca The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The admin ...

'' *''The Mystery of the

Maya Maya may refer to: Civilizations * Maya peoples, of southern Mexico and northern Central America ** Maya civilization, the historical civilization of the Maya peoples ** Maya language, the languages of the Maya peoples * Maya (Ethiopia), a populat ...

'' *''First Dive to Shark Dive'' *''The Lost World of the

Anasazi The Ancestral Puebloans, also known as the Anasazi, were an ancient Native American culture that spanned the present-day Four Corners region of the United States, comprising southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, a ...

'' *''Tierra del Fuego: A Journey to the End of the Earth'' *''Amazon: A Journey Through the Last Frontier'' *''On the Trail of

Lewis and Clark Lewis may refer to: Names * Lewis (given name), including a list of people with the given name * Lewis (surname), including a list of people with the surname Music * Lewis (musician), Canadian singer * "Lewis (Mistreated)", a song by Radiohead ...

: A journey up the Missouri River'' *''Erie Canal: Canoeing America's Great Waterway'' *''

Everglades The Everglades is a natural region of tropical climate, tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the Neotropical realm. The system begins near Orland ...

: Buffalo Tiger and the River of Grass'' *''

Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...

: An Adventure from the Mountains to the Sea'' *''

Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it f ...

: A journey Down the Father of Waters'' *''Rio Grande: From the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico'' *''On the Trail of Sacagawea'' *''

Yukon River The Yukon River (Gwichʼin language, Gwich'in: ''Ųųg Han'' or ''Yuk Han'', Central Alaskan Yup'ik language, Yup'ik: ''Kuigpak'', Inupiaq language, Inupiaq: ''Kuukpak'', Deg Xinag language, Deg Xinag: ''Yeqin'', Hän language, Hän: ''Tth'echù' ...

: An Adventure to the Gold Fields of the Klondike'' *''The Lost Treasure of Captain Kid'' (novel) *''River of Mountains: A Canoe Journey Down the Hudson'' (nonfiction for adults) *''Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure'' (nonfiction for adults)

External links

Official website
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Icebreaker StoriesArctic Stories website
1952 births Writers from Ann Arbor, Michigan Living people New York University alumni University of Maine alumni Columbia University School of the Arts alumni Middlebury College faculty {{US-writer-stub