Richard Conniff (born March 2, 1951) is an
American non-fiction
writer
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, specializing in human and animal behavior.
Career
Conniff also writes about wildlife, human cultures and other topics for ''
Time
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'', ''
Smithsonian'', ''
Atlantic Monthly'', ''
The New York Times Magazine
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'', ''
National Geographic'', ''
Audubon Magazine
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'', ''
Yale Environment 360'', ''
Scientific American
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'' and other publications in the
United States
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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
Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2009 Loeb Journalism Award.
Conniff has been a frequent commentator on
NPR
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and serves as a contributing opinion writer for ''
The New York Times
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'' online. He has written and presented television shows for
National Geographic Channel,
TBS,
Animal Planet
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, 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''.
* 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for Online business journalism for "Middle Class Crunch"
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* ''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)