Delia Owens was born on April 4,1949 and is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist.
16 Facts About Delia Owens
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Delia Owens is best known for her 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing.
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Delia Owens received a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology from the University of Georgia, and a PhD in animal behavior from the University of California, Davis.
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Delia Owens met Mark Delia Owens in a protozoology class at the University of Georgia when they were both graduate students studying biology.
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Delia Owens wrote about Africa in her memoirs Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna.
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Since returning to the United States, Delia Owens has been involved in bear conservation.
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Delia Owens grew up in Thomasville in southern Georgia; she has mostly lived in or near true wilderness.
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Delia Owens knew she wanted to be a writer, but she decided on a career in science.
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Since completing her PhD in biology, Delia Owens has published her studies of African wildlife behavioral ecology in journals including Nature, the Journal of Mammalogy, Animal Behaviour, and the African Journal of Ecology.
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Delia Owens has contributed articles to Natural History and International Wildlife, where she was a "roving editor" for more than 20 years.
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For many years, Delia Owens lived in Boundary County, Idaho which is twenty miles from Canada.
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Delia Owens is the co-founder of the Delia Owens Foundation for Wildlife Conservation in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
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Delia Owens has worked as a roving editor for International Wildlife, lectured throughout North America and participated in conservation efforts for the grizzly bear throughout the United States.
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Everson told Goldberg that it was not a Zambian game scout but Christopher Delia Owens who fired the fatal shots.
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However, her novel Where the Crawdads Sing, has aroused suspicion from those on her book tour about the parallels between the main character Kya and her case, and Delia Owens's own alleged accusation.
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In June 2022, Zambian police officials told Jeffery Goldberg that they believe that Delia Owens should be interrogated as a possible witness, co-conspirator, and accessory to felony crimes.