Ann zwinger biography

Biography.
Ann Haymond Zwinger was the author of many natural histories noted for detail and lyrical prose.
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Ann H. Zwinger Papers, Ms 0323

Gift of Ann H. Zwinger, 2006. Finding aid by Ann H. Zwinger, 2006.

Biography
Source: Ann Zwinger obituary, Colorado Springs Gazette, September 7, 2014 https://obits.gazette.com/obituaries/gazette/obituary.aspx?pid=172384209

Ann Haymond Zwinger, noted author and naturalist, was born March 12, 1925 in Muncie, Indiana, the daughter of William T. Haymond, a lawyer, and Helen G. Haymond, an artist.

Zwinger graduated from Wellesley College, followed by graduate work at Radcliffe and Indiana University. She was working toward a doctorate at Harvard when she was "swept off her feet by a young Air Force pilot," Herman Zwinger. As a military wife she followed her husband across several states while raising her three daughters, Susan, Jane, and Sara). Transferred to Colorado Springs July 1960, they decided that it was a city of the arts, a beautiful natural environment, and a town where they could settle down.

Zwinger began to draw the plants she found on the forty acres she and Herman purchased in the mountains near Colorado Springs

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A Desert Country Near the Sea: A Natural History of the Cape Region of Baja California

March 31, 2023

I didn't know anything about this author. I certainly didn't realize how many other books she had written. This book is charming. It gives you some idea of some of the plants and animals you can see in Baja. It is really an overall description of the environment there through descriptions of individual observations. Part is fleeting observations, part is detailed observations, and part is some of the science behind the observations. There is even a little bit of history of the area. The drawings are exquisite. I didn't see the credit for them, but I assume they were by the author. It is a little disconcerting that the drawings are often not on the pages that describe what is being drawn. The author's description's are amazing. I don't understand how she was able to describe so well what she was seeing, and when she was snorkeling, how she could remember all she did of what she had seen. She has an large vocabulary of words for color. In general, she uses a lot of unusual words.

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Ann Zwinger

Ann Haymond Zwinger (1925–2014) was the author of many natural histories noted for detail and lyrical prose.

Biography

Ann Haymond Zwinger was born March 12, 1925, in Muncie, Indiana, the daughter of William and Ann Haymond. While young, she lived along the White River. She studied art history and was awarded two degrees, an A.B. in Arts in 1946 by Wellesley College with the designation "Wellesley College Scholar," now considered roughly equivalent to "cum laude," and an A.M. in Fine Arts by Indiana University in 1950. She married Herman H. Zwinger, a pilot, in 1952.^[1]^[2]

In 1960, Zwinger moved to Colorado Springs with her husband and began to study Western ecology. In 1970, her first book was published, Beyond the Aspen Grove. She and co-author Beatrice Willard were finalists for the 1973 National Book Award in science for Land Above the Trees.Run, River, Run was another distinguished book published in 1975. It received glowing reviews by The New York Times, the John Burroughs Memorial Association Gold Medal for a distingu