Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor and curator of entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Praise For…
"Naturalist reads like a classic hero's tale." — Bloomsbury Review
"[Naturalist] is one of the finest scientific memoirs ever written, by one of the finest scientists writing today." — Los Angeles Times
"The book to read, to get the full story on Mr. Wilson’s eventful life, is his memoir Naturalist, published in 1994." — The New York Times
"What distinguishes Wilson's story is its handsome prose, honed by years of practice into a concise and sly discourse. Among literary scientists, no one since Rachel Carson has more effectively joined humble detail to a grand vision of life processes and structures." — The Washington Post Book World
"A wise personal memoir…. A mixture of loneliness, amusement, curiosity and intellectual rigor makes the voice of this thoughtful man unforgettable." — The New York Times Book Review
"Wilson is the grand master of lyrically analytic nature writing." — Science
"This memoir, a fitting capstone to an extraordinary career, should inspire yet another generation of scientists to explore the natural world." — Library Journal
"Vividly, often beautifully written. Wilson emerges not only as a gifted scientist, but also as a likable, passionate, eloquent person." — Jared Diamond
"In this exquisitely written memoir, the famed Harvard scientist looks back at his childhood in the South as well as his career as a groundbreaking thinker in the field of evolutionary biology. Truly, here is the irrefutable proof that scientists have souls." — The USA Today
