Richard Conniff (born March 2, 1951) is an

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n non-fiction writer, specializing in human and animal behavior.

Career

Conniff also writes about wildlife, human cultures and other topics for '' Time'', '' Smithsonian'', ''

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'', '' The New York Times Magazine'', ''

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'', '' Audubon Magazine'', ''

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'', '' Scientific American'' and other publications in the United States and abroad. His magazine work in ''Smithsonian'' won the 1997 National Magazine Award, and was included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing in 2000, 2002, and 2006. Conniff is also the winner of the 2001 John Burroughs Award for Outstanding Nature Essay of the Year, a 2007

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, and a 2009 Loeb Journalism Award. Conniff has been a frequent commentator on NPR and serves as a contributing opinion writer for '' The New York Times'' online. He has written and presented television shows for

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, TBS, Animal Planet, the BBC, and Channel Four in the UK. His television work has been nominated for an Emmy Award for distinguished achievement in writing, and he won the 1998 Wildscreen Prize for Best Natural History Television Script for the BBC show ''Between Pacific Tides''.

Honors and awards

* 1997 National Magazine Award * Best American Science and Nature Writing (2000, 2002, and 2006) * 2001

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Award for Outstanding Nature Essay of the Year * 2007

* 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for Online business journalism for "Middle Class Crunch" * 2012 Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellow

Writing

Books

*
House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
'' Yale University Press. 2016. . * * * * * ''Rats!: the good, the bad, and the ugly'', Crown Publishers, 2002, * ''Every Creeping Thing: True Trales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife'', (Henry Holt, 1998) * ''Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World'' (Henry Holt, 1996)

Selected magazine articles

(1990)

(1989)
The Atlantic: Darwin's Revenge
(2008)
The Atlantic: Heart of Darwin
(2008)

(op-ed, 2008) * ttps://e360.yale.edu/features/putting-solar-panels-atop-parking-lots-a-green-energy-solution Why Putting Solar Canopies on Parking Lots Is a Smart Green Move(2021)
The Unsung Heroes Who Ended a Deadly Plague
(2022)

References

External links

Richard Conniff's Strange Behaviors Blog

Richard Conniff's Species Seekers Blog

''identity theory'', November 5, 2002

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