Charles Fergus has written about nature and the outdoors for many magazines and newspapers, including Audubon, Country Journal, Science, and the New York Times. He is the author of fifteen books, including Thornapples, Wildlife of Pennsylvania and the Northeast,A Hunter's Book of Days, and Summer at Little Lava, named by Library Journal as one of the Best Sci-Tech Books of 1998.He lives with his wife and son in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont in an old farmhouse on 108 acres of land, 80 of which are forested.