William W. Warner

William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008)^[1]^[2] 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.^[2] During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.^[2]

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.
^ ^a ^b ^c Holley, Joe (April 30, 2008), "William Warner; Wrote Classic On Chesapeake", The Washington Post, Washington, D,C, p. Obituaries

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Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1976–2000)

Why Survive? by Robert N. Butler (1976)
Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (1977)
The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan (1978)
On Human Nature by E. O. Wilson (1979)
Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter (1980)
Fin-de-siècle Vienna by Carl Emil Schorske (1981)
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (1982)
Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan (1983)
The Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr (1984)
The Good War by Studs Terkel (1985)
Common Ground by J. Anthony Lukas / Move Your Shadow by Joseph Lelyveld (1986)
Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler (1987)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (1988)
A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (1989)
And Their Children After Them by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson (1990)
The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson (1991)
The Prize by Daniel Yergin (1992)
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (1993)
Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick (1994)
The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner (1995)
The Haunted Land by Tina Rosenberg (1996)
Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger (1997)
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond (1998)
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (1999)
Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower (2000)

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