David Wallace

Who is David Wallace?

David Rains Wallace is an author of more than sixteen books on conservation and natural history, including The Monkey's Bridge and The Klamath Knot. He has written articles for the National Geographic Society, The Nature Conservancy, the Sierra Club, and other groups. Wallace's work also has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, Sierra, and other periodicals.

He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1945. Wallace received a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and a master's from Mills College in Oakland, California. He also undertook graduate work at Columbia University. Wallace lives in Berkeley, California.