Biography & Memoir

This embellished graphic novel, based on Audubon’s own retellings, not only captures the spirit of early America’s unexplored wilderness but also the rise of this exceptional artist to become one of the greatest natural historians ever. By Fabien Grolleau Read more

Reflecting on family, identity and nature, this personal memoir is about what it is to have a home. Written by and featuring Amanda Thomson's artwork and photography throughout, it explores how place, language and family shape us and make us who we are. Read more

At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. By Dorian Anderson. Read more

Birding with Yeats is a delicate, sensitive, and gentle reflection on the unique bond between a mother and son, and the magic that is the natural world. By Lynn Thomson. Read more

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. .. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils emerges this unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Read more

Regan Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. This is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally. Read more

An ambitious feminist anthology chronicling Indigenous rebellions around the world compiled by Sonja Eismann. Read more

At once a deeply moving memoir and a fascinating elucidation of a rich indigenous cosmology, Walking the Ojibwe Path is an unforgettable journey. By Richard Wagamese. Read more

A true story by Laurel Braitman about the ways loss can transform us into the people we want to become. Read more

In Writing Wild, Kathryn Aalto celebrates 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world. Read more

In this sensitively-written book, Torbjørn Ekelund, an acclaimed Norwegian nature writer, shares a creative and non-intrusive method for immersing oneself in nature. Read more

With 150 color illustrations by renowned bird artist Barry Van Dusen and a foreword by celebrated naturalist Peter Alden, the author of numerous Audubon Field Guides, Henry David Thoreau's writings on birds are arranged by the day of the year. Read more