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Rebecca Renner

Rebecca Renner

Rebecca Renner Biography

Rebecca Renner is a contributor to National Geographic, and her writing has appeared The New York Times, Outside Magazine, Tin House, The Paris Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and other publications. She holds an MFA from Stetson University. Gator Country is her debut.

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    Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic, National Geographic, the... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    Gator Country

    Try:
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    by Ben Goldfarb

  • Elizabeth Kolbert

    Elizabeth Kolbert

    Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. For her work at the New Yorker, where she's a staff writer, ... (more)

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    by Elizabeth Kolbert

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