A Ph.D. in ecology from Yale University, Robert Pyle now lives in Gray's River, Washington. Author of eight books, including Wintergreen (winner of the John Burroughs Medal), The Thunder Tree, and The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies, Pyle is currently editing a book of Nabokov's writings on butterflies. Check Butterflies by Robert Michael Pyle.
In Nature and Childhood (RealAudio program), Pyle discusses how adult mentors affect a child's attitude toward the natural world and how writing penetrates one's inner wilderness--the wilderness of imagination. (Recorded September 19, 1996, with Scott Russell Sanders, Michael Silverblatt host.)