Dr. Harry W. Greene, PhD, is adjunct professor of integrative biology at The University of Texas at Austin and emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. He graduated from Texas Wesleyan College in 1968, served three years as an army medic, then earned an M.A. from The University of Texas at Arlington and Ph.D. from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before moving to Cornell, he was a professor and curator in The University of California, Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Harry has taught behavior, vertebrate natural history, herpetology, introductory biology, evolution, and field ecology, all the while studying animals in more than a dozen countries. His honors include Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell’s highest teaching prize, and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature (1997) earned a PEN Literary Award and a place on the New York Times 100 Most Notable Books list. Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art (2013) was highly praised in Publishers Weekly, Science, Nature, and Current Biology. Harry now spends as much time as possible in the Hill Country, pampering Longhorns Pancho and Lefty while writing Monkeys, Snakes, and Spears: Lucy’s Wild Legacy.