John Burroughs Medal
The John Burroughs Medal,[1] named for nature writer John Burroughs (1837–1921), is awarded each year in April by the John Burroughs Association[2] to the author of a book that the association has judged to be distinguished in the field of natural history. Only twice has the award been given to a work of fiction.
List of recipients of the John Burroughs Medal
- 1926 - William Beebe, Pheasants of the World
- 1927 - Ernest Thompson Seton, Lives of Game Animals
- 1928 - John Russell McCarthy, Nature Poems
- 1929 - Frank M. Chapman, Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America (published 1906)
- 1930 - Archibald Rutledge, Peace in the Heart
- 1931 - no award
- 1932 - Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, A Canyon Voyage: A Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition, ISBN 0-8165-0880-1
- 1933 - Oliver P. Medsker, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter (set)
- 1934 - W.W. Christman, Wild Pasture Pine
- 1935 - no award
- 1936 - Charles Crawford Gorst, Recordings of Bird Calls
- 1937 - no award
- 1938 - Robert Cushman Murphy, Oceanic Birds of South America
- 1939 - T. Gilbert Pearson, Adventures in Bird Protection
- 1940 - Arthur Cleveland Bent, Life Histories of North American Birds (18 title series, United States Government Printing Office)
- 1941 - Louis J. Halle, Jr., Birds Against Men
- 1942 - Edward A. Armstrong, Birds of the Grey Wind
- 1943 - Edwin Way Teale, Near Horizons: The Story of an Insect Garden
- 1944 - no award
- 1945 - Rutherford Platt, This Green World ISBN 0-396-09188-1
- 1946 - Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques (illustrator), Snowshoe Country, ISBN 0-87351-236-7
- 1947 - no award
- 1948 - Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher, Driftwood Valley, ISBN 0-87071-524-0
- 1949 - Helen G. Cruickshank, Flight Into Sunshine: Bird Experiences in Florida
- 1950 - Roger Tory Peterson, Birds Over America, ISBN 0-396-08269-6
- 1951 - no award
- 1952 - Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, ISBN 0-451-61873-4
- 1953 - Gilbert Klingel, The Bay, ISBN 0-8018-2536-9
- 1954 - Joseph Wood Krutch, The Desert Year, ISBN 0-8165-0923-9
- 1955 - Wallace Byron Grange and Olaus J. Murie (illustrator), Those of the Forest, ISBN 1-55971-083-7
- 1956 - Guy Murchie, Song of the Sky
- 1957 - Archie Fairly Carr, The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores, ISBN 0-8130-0639-2
- 1958 - Robert Porter Allen, On the Trail of the Vanishing Birds
- 1959 - no award
- 1960 - John Kieran, A Natural History of New York City, ISBN 0-8232-1086-3
- 1961 - Loren Eiseley, The Firmament of Time, ISBN 0-8032-6739-8
- 1962 - George Miksch Sutton, Iceland Summer: Adventures of a Bird Painter, ISBN 0-8061-0491-0
- 1963 - Adolph Murie, A Naturalist in Alaska, ISBN 0-8165-1168-3
- 1964 - John Hay, The Great Beach: A Naturalist Explores the Frontier Between Land and Sea on the Outer Reaches of Cape Cod, ISBN 0-345-02255-6
- 1965 - Paul Brooks, Roadless Area, ISBN 0-345-25276-4
- 1966 - Louis Darling, The Gull's Way, ISBN 0-688-21366-9
- 1967 - Charlton Ogburn, Jr., The Winter Beach, ISBN 0-688-09418-X
- 1968 - Hal Borland, Hill Country Harvest
- 1969 - Louise de Kiriline Lawrence, The Lovely and the Wild, ISBN 0-920474-43-8
- 1970 - Victor B. Scheffer, The Year of the Whale
- 1971 - John K. Terres, From Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog, ISBN 0-8078-4426-8
- 1972 - Robert S. Arbib, The Lord's Woods: The Passing of an American Woodland, ISBN 0-393-08639-9
- 1973 - Elizabeth Barlow, The Forests and Wetlands of New York City
- 1974 - Sigurd F. Olson, Wilderness Days, ISBN 0-394-47155-5
- 1975 - no award
- 1976 - Ann Haymond Zwinger, Run, River, Run, ISBN 0-06-014824-1
- 1977 - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, ISBN 0-915024-15-2
- 1978 - Ruth Kirk, The American Southwest Desert, ISBN 0-395-17209-8
- 1979 - Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men, ISBN 0-7432-4936-4
- 1980 - no award
- 1981 - Mary Durant and Michael Harwood, On the Road with John James Audubon, ISBN 0-396-07740-4
- 1982 - Peter Matthiessen, Sand Rivers, ISBN 0-906053-22-6
- 1983 - Alexander F. Skutch, A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm, ISBN 0-520-03802-9
- 1984 - David Rains Wallace, The Klamath Knot: Explorations of Myth and Evolution, ISBN 0-520-23659-9
- 1985 - Mark Owens and Delia Owens, Cry of the Kalahari, ISBN 0-395-64780-0
- 1986 - Gary Paul Nabhan, Gathering the Desert, ISBN 0-8165-0935-2
- 1987 - Robert Michael Pyle, Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land, ISBN 0-684-18321-8
- 1988 - Tom Horton and Charles R. Hazard (illustrator), Bay Country, ISBN 0-8018-3525-9
- 1989 - Lawrence Kilham, On Watching Birds, ISBN 0-930031-14-8
- 1990 - John McPhee, The Control of Nature, ISBN 0-374-12890-1
- 1991 - Richard Nelson, The Island Within, ISBN 0-86547-404-4
- 1992 - Kenneth S. Norris, Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin, ISBN 0-393-02945-X
- 1993 - Vincent Dethier, Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos, ISBN 0-674-17577-8
- 1994 - David G. Campbell, The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica, ISBN 0-436-20049-X
- 1995 - Craig Packer, Into Africa, ISBN 0-226-64429-4
- 1996 - Bill Green, Water, Ice and Stone:Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes, ISBN 0-517-58759-9
- 1997 - David Quammen, The Song Of The Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, ISBN 0-684-80083-7
- 1998 - John Alcock, In a Desert Garden:Love and Death Among the Insects, ISBN 0-8165-1970-6
- 1999 - Jan DeBlieu, Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land, ISBN 0-395-78033-0
- 2000 - Bernd Heinrich, Mind Of the Raven, ISBN 0-06-017447-1
- 2001 - David M. Carroll, Swampwalker's Journal, ISBN 0-395-64725-8
- 2002 - Ken Lamberton, Wilderness and Razor Wire, ISBN 1-56279-116-8
- 2003 - Carl Safina, Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival, ISBN 0-8050-6228-9
- 2004 - Ted Levin, Liquid Land: A Journey Through The Florida Everglades, ISBN 0-8203-2512-0
- 2005 - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, ISBN 0-87071-499-6
- 2006 - Donald Kroodsma, The Singing Life of Birds, ISBN 0-618-40568-2
- 2007 - Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild, ISBN 0-375-42216-1
- 2008 - Julia Whitty, The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific, ISBN 0-618-19716-8
- 2009 - Franklin Burroughs, Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay, ISBN 0-88448-282-0
- 2010 - Michael Welland, Sand: The Never-Ending Story, ISBN 0-520-26597-1
- 2011 - Elisabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, ISBN 978-1565126060
- 2012 - Edward (Ted) Hoagland, Sex and the River Styx, ISBN 978-1603583374
- 2013 - Thor Hanson, Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, ISBN 978-0465028788
- 2014 - Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines, ISBN 978-0956308665
- 2015 - Sherry Simpson, Dominion of Bears, ISBN 978-0700619351
- 2016 - Sharman Apt Russell, Diary of a Citizen Scientist, ISBN 978-0870717529 [3]
- 2017 - Brian Doyle, Martin Marten, ISBN 978-1250045201 [4]
- 2018 - David George Haskell, The Songs of Trees, ISBN 978-0525427520;[5] a special John Burroughs Medal was given for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry to Pattiann Rogers[6]
- 2020 - Marilyn Sigman, Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay, ISBN 978-1602233485
- 2021 - William Bryant Logan, Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
- 2022 - Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape.
- 2023 - Kelby Ouchley, Bayou D’Arbonne Swamp: A Naturalist’s Memoir of Place, Louisiana State University Press.
- 2024 - Marina Richie, Halcyon Journey: A Search for the Belted Kingfisher, Oregon State University Press, 2022.
References
- ^ "About the Awards". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ^ "About the John Burroughs Association". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ^ http://www.johnburroughsassociation.org/literary-awards978-0870717529 [dead link]
- ^ "Lake Oswego author Brian Doyle honored for nature writing".
- ^ "David Haskell Wins 2018 John Burroughs Medal". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
- ^ "Pattiann Rogers awarded John Burroughs Medal for lifetime achievement in nature poetry".
External links
See what we do next...
OR
By submitting your email or phone number, you're giving mschf permission to send you email and/or recurring marketing texts. Data rates may apply. Text stop to cancel, help for help.
Success: You're subscribed now !