Gary Ferguson @ CCC

Gary Ferguson, author of Decade of the Wolf, will read at noon in the Literary Arts Center on Tuesday, April 26. Ferguson's nature articles have appeared in dozens of national magazines, including Outside, Sierra, Vanity Fair, American Forests, Big Sky Journal, Modern Maturity, Travel Holiday, and productions of New York's Children's Television Workshop. He's also the author of fourteen books on nature and science. His 1997 title, Through the Woods: A Journey Through America's Forests, was a starred selection in Kirkus Review, as well as a winner of the prestigious Lowell Thomas Awards. Spirits of the Wild: The World's Great Nature Myths, was selected by the New York City Public Library as one of the best books of 1996. Ferguson has appeared on more than a hundred radio and television programs in Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland, Denver, and Chicago; his nature-oriented essays can be heard on National Public Radio affiliates throughout the country. Before beginning his writing career he worked as an interpretive naturalist for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho's Sawtooth National Recreation Area. His 2004 title, Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone, was the first nonfiction work to win both the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Nonfiction.