10 Facts About Dale Peterson

Dale Peterson was born on November 20,1944 and is an American author who writes about scientific and natural history subjects.

Dale Alfred Peterson was born and raised in Corning, New York, a small town known for glass manufacturing in western New York State.

Dale Peterson obtained his BA from the University of Rochester in 1967, then began his graduate studies at Stanford University, first in the writing program under Wallace Stegner, later in the English Department.

Dale Peterson wrote a novel loosely based on his experiences, which was never published, and began work on a non-fiction treatment of the social and psychological experiences of the mentally ill.

Dale Peterson next wrote Goodall's only full biography, Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man.

For 2013 and 2014, Dale Peterson was named a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

In 2010, Dale Peterson founded the Henry David Thoreau Prize for Literary Excellence in Nature Writing, an annual literary award designed to honor America's best nature writers.

Originally conceived as a program supported and administered by PEN New England, the Thoreau Prize is currently supported and administered by The Thoreau Society, Inc Since 1984, Dale Peterson has taught writing part-time in the English Department of Tufts University.

Dale Peterson has been an adjunct faculty member of the English Department at Tufts University for more than thirty years and, for the last two, has organized and team-taught an undergraduate course on elephants and elephant conservation through the Tufts University Experimental College.

Dale Peterson's latest book, 33 Ways of Looking at an Elephant, is an edited collection of thirty three essential writings about elephants from across history, from Aristotle to the present, with geographical perspectives from Africa and Southeast Asia to Europe and the United States.