Frank Chapman

Frank Michler Chapman was an American ornithologist and pioneer writer of field guides. Throughout his lifetime, he published more than twenty books and dozens of articles, all in the field of natural history. Chapman was a founding member of the Explorers Club and the Museum of Natural History. He passed away in 1945 in New York City.Julie Zickefoose, the author and illustrator of Baby Birds (2016), The Bluebird Effect (2012), and Letters from Eden (2006), is a contributing editor to Bird Watcher’s Digest. She lives with her family on an eighty-acre sanctuary in Appalachian Ohio.