Boulder: Johnson Books, 1988. Awards and accolades 1970 Rhodes Scholarship 1987 National Magazine Award 1988 Guggenheim Fellowship 1994 National Magazine Award 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1996 Natural World Book Prize 1997 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism 1997 Lannan Foundation Fellowship 1997 John Burroughs Medal for nature writing 2000 Honorary doctorate from Montana State University 2001 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay for The Boilerplate Rhino 2005 National Magazine Award 2009 Honorary doctorate from Colorado College 2012 The Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, finalist for Spillover See also Edward Abbey References External links Author papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University Video: David Quammen discussing Spillover, September 2012 From the NPR Radio Show, Krulwich on Science, titled "Three Nice Things We Can Say About Mosquitoes", July 30, 2008 From the NPR Radio Show the Bryant Park Project interview about his book "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin" on July 1, 2008 From the NPR Radio Show, Krulwich on Science, titled "The Racing Asparagus" (promoting his Charles Darwin biography), September 20, 2006 Books by David Quammen "Walking Out" (1980) - full text at the Short Story Project American nature writers American non-fiction environmental writers American science writers American science journalists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers National Geographic people Charles Darwin biographers American Rhodes Scholars John Burroughs Medal recipients PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award winners St. Xavier High School (Ohio) alumni Yale University alumni Alumni of Merton College, Oxford Writers from Cincinnati Writers from Montana American male writers People from Bozeman, Montana 1948 births Living people