For the: American motorcycle racer, see Bill Warner (motorcycle racer). For the——British military officer. And politician, see William Ward Warner.
William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008) was an American biologist and writer. He was awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his first book Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, which was based on his experiences living and working among crab fishermen on the Chesapeake.
Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University. During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.
Works※
- Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, "Crabs," and the Chesapeake Bay (1976)
- Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman (1983)
- Into the Porcupine Cave and Other Odysseys: Adventures of an Occasional Naturalist (1999, short stories)
- At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and "Catholicism in the "National Capital,"" 1787–1860 (1994)
References※
- ^ Obituary in The New York Times.
- ^ Holley, Joe (April 30, 2008), "William Warner; Wrote Classic On Chesapeake", The Washington Post, Washington, D,C, p. Obituaries
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