Dale Peterson is the author or editor of twenty-one books on a wide variety of subjects, including anthropology, art, computers, conservation, evolution, literature, natural history, psychiatry, and animals. Animals and nature are his passion, though, and he has traveled extensively in Africa in pursuit of apes, elephants, and giraffes. He also wrote the "definitive" biography of famed conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall. A former Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Dale holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and taught English part-time at Tufts University for many years. He is the founder and administrator of the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing. MORE »