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Delia Owens

1949 - Today

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Delia Owens (born April 4, 1949) is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist. She is best known for her 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing. Owens was born and grew up in southern Georgia, where she spent most of her life in or near true wilderness. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Delia Owens has received more than 1,923,895 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Delia Owens is the 4,509th most popular writer, the 6,053rd most popular biography from United States and the 483rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 48.98

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  • 16

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  • 3.38

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  • 2.65

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Notable Works

Survivor's song
1993
Where the Crawdads Sing
Solitude, Fiction, Fiction, coming of age
For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life–until the unthinkable happens. Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.
2018
A handbook to literary research
Criticism, Methodology, Literature
2009
Educated Tara Westover, Where the Crawdads Sing [Hardcover] 2 Books Collection Set
2019
Cry of the Kalahari
Animals, Description and travel, Zoology
Written by two American zoologists who lived in the Kalahari desert in Africa during the 1970s, this factual but entertaining book details their life and the animal life they encountered.
1984
The Eye of the Elephant
Biography, Elephants, Wildlife conservation
1992

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Delia Owens ranks 4,509 out of 7,302. Before her are Ivan Olbracht, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Uwe Timm, Hasrat Mohani, and Dumitru Stăniloae. After her are Louis Henri Boussenard, Oskar Pastior, Terenci Moix, Piero Angela, Janko Kráľ, and Claude Mauriac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Delia Owens ranks 379. Before her are Bob Ezrin, Carlos Gomes Júnior, Ed Begley Jr., Pia Degermark, John Boehner, and Stan Hansen. After her are Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Helena Fibingerová, Tom Verlaine, Steven Williams, Odilo Scherer, and Arjun Appadurai.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Delia Owens ranks 6,053 out of 20,380. Before her are Roger McGuinn (1942), Jack Northrop (1895), Nicky Hayden (1981), Anna Harrison (1775), David A. Huffman (1925), and Larry Brown (1940). After her are Mike Todd (1909), Carol Channing (1921), Wynton Kelly (1931), Brian Greene (1963), Shannon Elizabeth (1973), and Kenny Dorham (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Delia Owens ranks 483. Before her are Norman Vincent Peale (1898), Brian Herbert (1947), Helen Thomas (1920), Julia Quinn (1970), Tracy Chevalier (1962), and Reginald Rose (1920). After her are C. J. Cherryh (1942), Amy Lowell (1874), E. E. Smith (1890), Timothy Zahn (1951), Norman Spinrad (1940), and Russell Kirk (1918).

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