William W. Warner

William W. Warner (April 2, 1920 – April 18, 2008)[1][2] was an American biologist and writer. He was awarded the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his first book Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay, which was based on his experiences living and working among crab fishermen on the Chesapeake.

For the American motorcycle racer, see Bill Warner (motorcycle racer). For the British military officer and politician, see William Ward Warner.

Warner was a 1943 graduate of Princeton University.[2] During World War II, Warner served in the Pacific Theater of operations as an aerial photograph analyst with a Marine air group.[2]

Works
  • Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay (1976)
  • Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman (1983)
  • Into the Porcupine Cave and Other Odysseys: Adventures of an Occasional Naturalist (1999, short stories)
  • At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787–1860 (1994)

References
  1. Obituary in the New York Times.
  2. Holley, Joe (April 30, 2008), "William Warner; Wrote Classic On Chesapeake", The Washington Post, Washington, D,C, p. Obituaries


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