Nature, art and writing — Julie Zickefoose has successfully found a way to combine her three passions into one, and, in the process, provided the rest of us with a birds-eye view of the natural world.
Zickefoose started illustrating and then writing for Bird Watcher’s Digest in 1986, building an audience of bird enthusiasts via this worldwide magazine. She contributed natural history and mild social commentary to National Public Radio’s All Things Considered from 2006-2010, a pretty good run as commentator runs go.
Her first illustrated book of essays, Letters from Eden, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006, and was followed by a book twice its size and span, The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), featuring 320 color paintings and life sketches. The Bluebird Effect was chosen by Oprah’s Book Club as its Book of the Week in April 2012. (For more information about Zickefoose, visit her website )
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