Authors: Thomas French
THOMAS FRENCH
has been a journalist for three decades. For most of that time, he worked as a reporter at the
St. Petersburg Times
, where he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. He now teaches journalism at Indiana University.
“Tom French has given us a gorgeously written, meticulously reported, and incredibly moving look into the hearts and minds of animals and their keepers. You will never again visit a zoo without thinking of this remarkable story.”
—J
EFFREY
Z
ASLOW
,
coauthor,
The Last Lecture
“
Zoo Story
takes us on an extraordinary, enlightening journey behind the scenes of the places many of us have only glimpsed through cages and smudged glass. Thomas French peers into the dark eyes of some of the world’s most powerful creatures, and shows us our own reflection.”
—J
IM
S
HEELER,
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing and
author of National Book Award Finalist
Final Salute
“I’ll read a better book on zoos when elephants fly. Oh wait, they kinda do in the amazing journey that is
Zoo Story
by Thomas French.”
—R
OY
P
ETER
C
LARK,
author of
Writing Tools
and
The Glamour of Grammar
“
Zoo Story
is a deeply moving, page-turning, mind-altering book. Thomas French tells the story of the great animals—man, woman, tiger, chimp—like no one before him.”
—M
ICHAEL
C
APUZZO,
author of
Close to Shore
and
The Murder Room
Copyright © 2010 Thomas French
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ISBN: 978-1-4013-2346-2
EPub Edition © 2010 ISBN: 9781401396039
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No relation to the author.