Nantucket Sleigh Ride!

The LA Times Book Prize Finalists were announced today and we want you to know that two of the Finalists (in the Science and Technology category- which includes nature) are Wales Agency authors. Congratulations to Carol Kaesuk Yoon and Bill Streever.

Carol Kaesuk Yoon, author of Naming Nature: The Clash between Instinct and Science (WW Norton, 2009) lives in Bellingham, Washington and writes for the Science Times section of The New York Times. For more information about Carol Kaesuk Yoon go to her website. Naming Nature was picked as one of the ten best books of 2009 by New Scientist. Yoon’s editor at WW Norton is Maria Guarnaschelli.

Bill Streever, author of COLD: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places (Little, Brown, 2009) lives in Anchorage, Alaska and works as a Biologist in the Arctic. For more information about Bill Streever go to his website. Cold was named a NY Times Notable Book for 2009. Bill Streever’s editor at Little, Brown is John Parsley.

For further information go to The LA Times Blog