Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, author and scriptwriter who writes for children as well as adults. She is author of more than 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 has been described 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

Reviews and awards

• “Equal parts poet and scientist.” — The New York Times
• "Sy Montgomery has insight into the Others that every nature writer on this continent envies. I am no exception. Clear, emotionally telling and always right to the point, her accounts of the other forms of life are without peer.” — Farley Mowat, author of Never Cry Wolf
• "Living on the edge of her senses, writing down what she knows to be true, Montgomery is a modern miracle: bawdy, brave, inventive, prophetic, hell-bent on loving this planet." -- Beth Kephart, Book magazine
• "Sy Montgomery brings an adventurer's daring, an artist's sensibilities, and an ethicist's wisdom to field biology. She also, luckily for us, writes beautifully." -- Sue Hubbell, author of A Country Year

• Kakapo Rescue won the Sibert Medal.
• New England Independent Bookseller's Association Nonfiction award (a lifetime achievement award)
• Henry Bergh Award from the MSPCA for Nonfiction (a lifetime achievement award)
• 2010 Children's Book Guild Award for Nonfiction

List of Works⁵

For Adults:

• The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood
• Walking with Great Apes
• Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon quest
• Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics
• Birdology
• The Curious Naturalist: Nature's Everyday Mysteries
• Seasons of the Wild
• The Wild out of Your Window
• Spell of the Tiger: The Man-eaters of the Sunderbans

For Children:

• The Snake Scientist
• Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
• The Quest for the Tree Kangaroo: An Expedition to the cloud forest of New Guinea
• Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition among Snow Leopards in Mongolia
• The Tarantula Scientist
• The Man Eating Tigers of Sundarbans
• Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species
• Temple Grandin: How the Girl Who Loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World
• Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

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

External links

• Sy Montgomery at Library of Congress Authorities, with 27 catalog records