Edwin Way Teale
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Edwin Way Teale (June 2, 1899 – October 18, 1980) was an American naturalist, photographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
Born in Joliet, Illinois, his interest in the natural world was fostered by childhood summers spent at his grandparents' farm in Indiana's dune country—experiences recalled in his book Dune Boy (1943). He attended Earlham College and Columbia University, then worked for many years as a staff writer at Popular Science.
On February 14, 1947, Teale and his wife Nellie set off in their black Buick for a 17,000 mile roadtrip. They headed first to the Florida Everglades, then zigzagged northward following the advance of spring. Teale wrote about the adventure in North with the Spring. The book was followed by three others on the North American seasons: Journey Into Summer, Autumn Across America, and Wandering Through Winter, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1966. Among his other books are Circle of the Seasons, The Strange Lives of Familiar Insects, A Walk Through the Year, and Near Horizons, which received the the 1943 John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing.
In 1959, the couple purchased a farm near Hampton, Connecticut, which Teale chronicled in A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm (1974). The property, which they named "Trail Wood," is now managed as a nature preserve by the Connecticut Audubon Society.
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