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About the Authors
BILL SCHUTT is a vertebrate zoologist, explorer, educator, and author. He is a research associate in residence at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor of biology at LIU-Post. Bill’s first book, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, was praised by E. O. Wilson, the New York Times, and Alice Cooper. His latest nonfiction book, Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, is a widely acclaimed exploration of cannibalism in nature and among humans. Bill lives with his wife and son on Long Island.
J. R. FINCH is the pen name of a painter, archaeologist, and cave explorer. He lives in New York with three cats. Though living “on the spectrum” and being somewhat reclusive, he has traveled as a civilian scientist with military specialists, co-produced multiple patents, and under other pen names has written music lyrics, Hollywood-adapted books, and, oddly, a scientific paper that became a movie. To others, he frequently advises: “Whoever counted you out probably can’t count.”
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