Delia Owens (Americus, Georgia, United States, 1949) trained as a zoologist and ethologist. She grew up in Thomasville and earned a degree in Zoology at the University of Georgia. In 1974, with her then-husband, Mark Owens, she moved to Africa to work first in Botswana (Central Kalahari Reserve, and from those studies obtained a PhD in Ethology at the University of California) and later in Zambia. After spending twenty-three years in Africa, she moved to a ranch in Idaho, in the northwest of the United States. After writing several scientific essays (Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, Secrets of the Savanna), she set out to write a novel. Thus was born Where the Crawdads Sing, published in the United States in August 2018. At seventy, it has been a record-breaking narrative debut: it has spent several months in the top position of the New York Times bestseller list, has sold more than three million copies, and has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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