 Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Web site: dorothyhinshawpatent.com
I was born in Rochester, MN, where my father was a physician at the Mayo Clinic. We moved to the San Francisco Bay Area when I was nine years old, and I grew up in Marin County. From the time I was very young, I loved animals and nature.
I received a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University (1962) and a M.A. (1965) and PhD. (1968) in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. While in graduate school, I married fellow student Greg Patent. We had two sons, David and Jason, both now grown and married.
For the first few years after graduate school I worked as a scientist-- two years of post-doctoral work (Sinai Hospital, Detroit, MI, and Stazzione Zoologica, Naples, Italy) and later several years teaching part-time night school at the University of Montana and full-time on the faculty for six months.
I began writing for children in 1972, for Holiday House, and have had books published by more than a dozen publishers. In addition to my science and nature books for children, I have coauthored two gardening books for adults, one of which was revised and reissued in 1997. I have also coauthored a 1999 cookbook on apples with my husband, Greg Patent. I have more than 100 published books to date. I have contributed a number of articles to Organic Gardening Magazine and have coauthored two cooking articles with my husband for Woman's Day Magazine. I have also written for The Horn Book, The Writer, Arizoo, Spider, Storyworks, and Falcon magazines and for The Missoulian newspaper. Some of my magazine articles are available on SIRS Discoverer CD-ROM. My photographs have appeared in National Gardening Magazine, The Missoulian, and in many of my children's books.
Awards and Honors:
1977--Golden Kite Honor Book (Society of Children's Book Writers) for EVOLUTION GOES ON EVERY DAY
1980--Golden Kite Award Book for THE LIVES OF SPIDERS
1982--ALA Notable Book--SPIDER MAGIC
1985--Library of Congress--Children's Books of the Year--WHERE THE BALD EAGLES GATHER
1986--School Library Journal, Best Books of the Year-- BUFFALO--THE AMERICAN BISON TODAY
1986--ALA Best Books for Young Adults--THE QUEST FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
1987--Eva Gordon Award from the American Nature Study Society, an annual award given to a children's science author for the contribution of his/her body of work to science education
1990--New York Public Library Books for the Teenage--HOW SMART ARE ANIMALS?
1992--School Library Journal Best Books of the Year and American Bookseller Magazine Pick of the Lists--FEATHERS
1994--Children's Choice Award book, HUGGER TO THE RESCUE
1994--New York Public Library Books for the Teenage--THE VANISHING FEAST
1994--Lud Browman Award for Science Writing, Friends of the Mansfield Library, University of Montana
1997--1997 Garden State Children's Book Award Nominee--HUGGER TO THE RESCUE
1997--AAAS Best Science Books of 1996--BIODIVERSITY
1997--Scientific American Books for Young People Award--PIGEONS
1998--Great Stone Face Award nominee--RETURN OF THE WOLF
1998--AAAS Best Science Books of 1998--APPLE TREES
1999--Bank Street College of Education Best Children's books of the Year--APPLE TREES
1999--CBC-IRA Children's Choices selection--ALEX AND FRIENDS-ANIMAL TALK, ANIMAL THINKING
Books By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent:
AFRICAN ELEPHANTS: Giants of the Land with full-color photographs by Oria Douglas-Hamilton
ALL ABOUT WHALES with black-and-white photographs
APPALOOSA HORSES with black-and-white photographs by William Muiwiz
BABIES! with full-color photographs. A 1988 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.
DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES with black-and-white photographs. A 1987 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.
DRAFTHORSES with black-and-white photographs by William Muñoz.
A 1986 NSTA Oustanding Science Trade Book for Children
HORSES OF AMERICA with black-and-white photographs.
HUMPBACK WHALES with full-color photographs by M. Ferrari and D. Glockner-Ferrari. A 1989 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children.
LOOKING AT ANTS with black-and-white photographs
LOOKING AT DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES with black-and-white photographs
MOSQUITOES with black-and-white photographs. A 1989 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children
NUTRITION: What's in the Food We Eat -- with full-color photograpns by William Muñoz
SEALS, SEA LIONS, AND WALRUSES with black-and-white photographs. A 1990 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children
WHALES: Giants of the Deep with black-and-white photographs. A 1984 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children
WHERE FOOD COMES FROM with full-color photographs by William Muñoz
YELLOWSTONE FIRES: Flames and Rebirth with full-color photographs by William Muñoz. A 1990 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Children A 1990 NCSS Notable Trade Book for Children in the Field of Social Studies
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