Walters, Mark Jerome 1952-

PERSONAL: Born December 24, 1952, in Melbourne, FL. Education: McGill University, B.A., 1976; Columbia University, M.S.J., 1977; Tufts University, D.V.M., 1993.

ADDRESSES: Office— University of South Florida, 140 7th Ave. S., St. Petersburg, FL 33701. E-mail— [email protected].

CAREER: Veterinarian. University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, affiliate.

AWARDS, HONORS: Independent Publisher Book Award, 2004, for Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them.

WRITINGS

The Dance of Life: Courtship in the Animal Kingdom, Arbor House (New York, NY), 1988, published as Courtship in the Animal Kingdom, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1989.

A Shadow and a Song: The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species, Chelsea Green Publishing (Post Mills, VT), 1992.

Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2003.

Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island, Island Press (Washington, DC), 2006.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES

PERIODICALS

Booklist, September 15, 2003, Ray Olson, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 191.

Boston Globe, February 7, 1988, review of The Dance of Life: Courtship in the Animal Kingdom.

Environmental Health Perspectives, January, 2004, Donald S. Burke, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. A66.

Library Journal, September 15, 2003, Tina Neville, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 83.

Los Angeles Times, November 29, 1993, review of A Shadow and a Song: The Struggle to Save an Endangered Species.

New York Times, November 4, 2003, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them.

OnEarth, fall, 2003, Martin Downs, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 39.

Publishers Weekly, August 11, 2003, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 271.

Regulation, summer, 2004, Angela Logomasini, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 69.

Science News, November 15, 2003, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 319; August 5, 2006, review of Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island.

World Watch, January-February, 2004, Clayton Adams, review of Six Modern Plagues and How We Are Causing Them, p. 31.