Delia Owens

American · b. 1949

Delia Owens spent decades as a wildlife scientist in Botswana and Zambia, co-authoring bestselling field memoirs about lions and elephants, before publishing her first novel at 69. Where the Crawdads Sing — marsh biology braided into a murder trial — became one of the best-selling novels of all time, with over 18 million copies sold.