I am privileged to stand here and talk to you because I told a story. It wasn’t even an original or made-up story. I found it in a newspaper and it amazed me. Reading it made the soles of my feet tingle. The story made me happy and it made me feel that being human […]
Archives for January 2005
The Race to Save the Lord God Bird: Phillip Hoose’s 2005 BGHB Nonfiction Award Speech
January 5, 2005 by Leave a Comment
I’d like to tell you how and why I came to choose the Ivory-billed Woodpecker as the subject for a work of nonfiction. I did it to unite my two careers with one project: I am both an author and a conservationist (next week I will begin my twenty-ninth year as a staff member of […]
