Sy Montgomery

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Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, author and scriptwriter who writes for children as well as adults. She is author of 15 books, most popular of which is The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood. Her other notable titles include Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Spell of the Tiger, and Search for the Golden Moon Bear. She also writes a popular nature column for the Boston Globe,1 which has described her as 'part Indiana Jones, part Emily Dickinson'.2 Her book for children, Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea was the recipient of the 2007 Orbis Pictus Award and was selected as an Honor book for the ALA Sibert Award.1

Personal life

Sy Montgomery was born on February 7, 1958 in Frankfurt, Germany.3 She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.4

She lives in Hancock, New Hampshire with her husband Howard Mansfield.3

List of Works5

  • The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
  • Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
  • Birdology
  • The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the cloud forest of New Guinea
  • Walking with Great Apes
  • Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition among Snow Leopards in Mongolia
  • Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon quest
  • The Tarantula Scientist
  • The Man Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
  • Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
  • Letters from Eden: A year at Home, in the Woods
  • The Snake Scientist
  • The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries
  • The Wild out of Your Window

References

(1) http://www.papertigers.org/interviews/archived_interviews/montgomery.html

(2) http://www.chelseagreen.com/authors/sy_montgomery/

(3) http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13364.Sy_Montgomery

(4) http://symontgomery.com/?page_id=29

(5) http://www.goodreads.com/author/list/13364.Sy_Montgomery

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