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American non-fiction writer

Richard Conniff (born March 2, ) 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 Fresh York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine,^[2]Yale Environment ,^[3]Scientific American^[4] and other publications in the United States and abroad.

His magazine work in Smithsonian won the National Magazine Award, and was included in The Foremost American Science and Nature Writing in , , and Conniff is also the winner of the John Burroughs Award for Outstanding Nature Essay of the Year, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Loeb Journalism Award.

Conniff has been a frequent commentator on NPR and has served as a contributing opinion journalist for The New York Times.^[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 labor has been nominated for an Emmy Award for distinguished achievement in writing, and he won the Wildscreen Prize for Optimal Natural History Television Script for the BBC show Between Pacific Tides.

Honors and awards

Writing

Books

• Ending Epidemics: A History of Escape from Contagion. MIT Press.

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• House of Lost Worlds: Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Experience on Earth. Yale University Squeeze.
  Tony Horwitz. The Egyptian-American activist speaks out on the dangers women still face in a changing Mideast. Ron Rosenbaum. Joseph Giovannini.

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• The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN&#;.
• Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals.

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• The Ape in the Corner Office: How to Make Friends, Win Fights, and Work Smarter By Understanding Human Nature. Crown. ISBN&#;.
• The Natural History of the Rich: A Field Guide.
  August 2009 - Smithsonian Magazine: Four hundred years ago, the Italian scientist looked into space and changed our view of the universe. A brand-new exhibit brings one of his telescopes to the U.S. for the first time. How the original.

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• Rats!: the fine, the bad, and the ugly, Crown Publishers, , ISBN&#;
• Every Creeping Thing: True Trales of Faintly Repulsive Wildlife, (Henry Holt, ) ISBN&#;
• Spineless Wonders: Strange Tales from the Invertebrate World (Henry Holt, ) ISBN&#;
• Irish Walls (with photographer Alen MacWeeney) (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, ) ISBN
• The Devil's Book of Verse: Masters of the Poison Pen from Ancient Times to the Present Daytime (Everest House, ) ISBN &#;:

Selected magazine articles

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