Bernd Heinrich was born in Germany (April 19, 1940) and moved to Wilton, Maine as a child. He studied at the University of Maine and UCLA and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He is the author of many books including Winter World, Ravens in Winter, Mind of the Raven, and Why We Run. Many of his books focus on the natural world just outside the cabin door. Heinrich has won numerous awards for his writing and is a world class ultra-marathon runner. He spends much of the year at a rustic cabin that he built himself in the woods near Weld, Maine.
Series
Books
The Nesting Season
Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
2010
A Naturalist at Large
The Best Essays of Bernd Heinrich
2018
Summer World
A Season of Bounty
2009
Racing the Antelope
What Animals Can Teach Us About Running and Life
2001
The Thermal Warriors
Strategies of Insect Survival
1996
One Man's Owl
1987
Life Everlasting
The Animal Way of Death
2012
The Trees in My Forest
1997
Bumblebee Economics
1979
The Geese of Beaver Bog
2004
Ravens in Winter
1989
Why We Run
A Natural History
2002
A Year in the Maine Woods
1994
White Feathers
The Nesting Lives of Tree Swallows
2020
One Wild Bird at a Time
Portraits of Individual Lives
2016
Mind of the Raven
Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
1994
The Snoring Bird
My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology
2007
Racing the Clock
Running Across a Lifetime
2021
Winter World
The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
2003
In a Patch of Fireweed
A Biologist's Life in the Field
1984
The Homing Instinct
Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration
2010
