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Name
  
William Warner


Role
  
Biologist

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Died
  
April 18, 2008, Washington, D.C., United States

Education
  
Princeton University, Cornell University

Awards
  
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science

Books
  
Beautiful Swimmers, At peace with all their neig, Into the porcupine cave and, My Search for What Is Spiritual, My Search For What Is Spiritual

William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008) 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. During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.

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

    William W. Warner Wikipedia


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