is dedicated to creating books that celebrate the diversity of our food crops. The Illustrated History of Apples in the United States and Canada, already being heralded as a pomological classic, is designed to comprehensively record and illustrate our food crop heritage in rich detail, thus helping to rescue and popularize the historic varieties that still exist. Advocacy Whealy was an outspoken supporter of organic agriculture and the Slow Food movement and critic of pesticides and genetically modified crops calling their use "immoral." In 2012, he was listed among the largest financial donors in support of a California ballot initiative campaign to label foods derived from genetically engineered plants and animals. Bibliography References 1946 births Living people Technical writers MacArthur Fellows University of Kansas alumni People from Wellington, Kansas