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Sy's 20 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. The Soul of an Octopus was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. The Good Good Pig, her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. She is the winner of the 2009 New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, the 2010 Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (given by the ASPCA for Humane Education) and dozens of other honors. Her work with the man-eating tigers, the subject of her book Spell Of The Tiger, was made into in a National Geographic television documentary she scripted and narrated.
She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Keene State College in 2004, and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce University and also from Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.
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Question: For previous books you traveled to India to research man-eating
tigers, bonded with the great apes of Africa, swam with the pink dolphins of the
Amazon, and tracked the golden moon bear through Cambodia. For your latest book,
The Good Good Pig, you stayed a lot closer to home. Tell us about
it.
Sy Montgomery: For most of my books, I travel to jungles and cloud
forests and deserts and swamps, and I get a lot of credit for not being killed
in the process. I'm best known for writing about rare animals and foreign
cultures in remote places. This book, though, is about the pig in our barnyard
(though sometimes beyond—in his youth, Christopher Hogwood, like me, had the
travel bug, only he didn't get quite as far). The setting isn't glamorous. Pigs
aren't endangered or exotic. Yet Christopher Hogwood's adventures and personal
charisma provided as much drama and delight as any expedition I have ever
undertaken. It was he—and the interspecies family who gathered around him—who
sustained me on all my voyages, and anchored me, for the first time in my life,
to family and to home.
Q: Some people will look at this book and think it's about a pet pig. But
Christopher Hogwood wasn't...
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