About the Author

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Miriam Horn is an author, environmental advocate, journalist and filmmaker. Her fourth book, Homesick for a World Unknown is the first full biography of wildlife biologist George Schaller. It will be published in April 2026 by Penguin Press. 

Her previous books include Rebels in White Gloves, Coming of Age with Hillary’s Class; the New York Times bestselling Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming; and Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman, Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland. Two were made into documentary films for the Discovery Channel, with Horn acting as producer, and a Sundance premiere.

Horn spent fifteen years at the Environmental Defense Fund and six years at the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, working on habitat conservation, landowner and community partnerships, and public education. Before joining EDF, she was a senior writer at U.S. News and World Report and freelanced for many years for The New York Times and other publications. Horn grew up in California, graduated from Harvard University and divides her time between New York City and the Rocky Mountains.  Her daughter Francesca Sabel is a theater director in New York.