Allan W. Eckert

Allan W. Eckert was born on January 30, 1931 in Buffalo, New York, and raised in the Chicago, Illinois area but has been a long-time resident of Ohio where he attended university. As a young man, he hitch-hiked around the United States, living off the land and learning about wildlife. He began writing about nature and American history at the age of thirteen, eventually becoming an author of numerous distinguished books for children and adults. Seven of his books have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in literature.

In addition to his highly popular novels he has also written several screenplays and more than 225 "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" television shows for which he received an Emmy Award.

In a 1999 poll conducted by the Ohioana Library Association, jointly with Toni Morrison, Allan W. Eckert was voted "Favorite Ohio Writer of All Time."

Bibliography:

• The Great Auk - (1963)
• A Time of Terror: The Great Dayton Flood - (1965)
• The Silent Sky:The Incredible Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (1965)
• The Writer's Digest Course in Short Story Writing - (1965)
• Wild Season - (1967)
• The Frontiersmen - (1967)
• Bayou Backwaters - (1967)
• The Crossbreed - (1968)
• Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnees - (1968)
• The King Snake - (1968)
• The Dreaming Tree - (1968)
• Wilderness Empire - (1968)
• In Search of a Whale - (1969)
• The Conquerors - (1970)
• Incident at Hawk's Hill - (1971)
• The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone - (1973)
• The Owls of North America - (1973)
• Tecumseh - (1975)
• The HAB Theory - (1976)
• The Wilderness War - (1978)
• The Wading Birds of North America - (1978)
• Savage Journey - (1979)
• Song of the Wild - (1980)
• Whattizzit - (1981)
• Gateway to Empire - (1982)
• Johnny Logan: Shawnee Spy - (1982)
• The Dark Green Tunnel - (1983)
• The Wand - (1984)
• The Scarlet Mansion - (1985)
• Earth Treasures - Northeastern Quadrant - (1985)
• Earth Treasures - Southeastern Quadrant - (1985)
• Earth Treasures - Northwestern Quadrant - (1986)
• Earth Treasures - Southwestern Quadrant - (1987)
• Twilight Of Empire - (1988)
• A Sorrow in Our Heart:: The Life of Tecumseh - (1992)
• That Dark and Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley - (1995)
• The World of Opals - (1997)
• Return to Hawk's Hill - (1998)