Richard Conniff

Richard Conniff (born March 1, 1951) is an American non-fiction writer, specializing in human and animal behavior.

Career

Conniff also writes about wildlife, human cultures and other topics for Time, Smithsonian, Atlantic Monthly,[1] The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine,[2] Yale Environment 360,[3] Scientific American[4] and other publications in the United States 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 and serves as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times online.[5] He has written and presented television shows for National Geographic Channel, TBS, Animal Planet, the BBC, 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.

Honors and awards

Writing

Books
  • House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth. Yale University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-300-21163-4.
  • The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth. W. W. Norton & Company. 2010. ISBN 978-0-393-06854-2.
  • Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals. W. W. Norton & Company. 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-30457-2.
  • The Ape in the Corner Office: How to Make Friends, Win Fights, and Work Smarter By Understanding Human Nature. Crown. 2004. ISBN 978-1-4000-5219-6.
  • The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide. W. W. Norton & Company. 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-32488-4. richard conniff.
  • Rats!: the good, the bad, and the ugly, Crown Publishers, 2002, ISBN 978-0-375-91207-8
  • Every Creeping Thing: True Trales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife, (Henry Holt, 1998) ISBN 978-0-8050-5697-6
  • Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World (Henry Holt, 1996) ISBN 978-0-8050-4218-4

Selected magazine articles

References
  1. "Richard Conniff - Authors". The Atlantic. 2008-08-12. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
  2. Conniff, Richard. "Richard Conniff's Posts | Audubon Magazine Blog". Magblog.audubon.org. Archived from the original on 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
  3. http://e360.yale.edu/search.msp
  4. https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/richard-conniff
  5. Conniff, Richard. "Richard Conniff - Basic Instincts Blog - NYTimes.com". Conniff.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2010-10-20.
  6. "UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2013 Gerald Loeb Award Winners". PR Newswire. June 25, 2013. Retrieved February 2, 2019.
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