Helen Macdonald

Helen Macdonald is a British writer, naturalist, and academic whose nature writing has won widespread acclaim. She is a Research Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, and an affiliated research scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Falcon is a cultural and natural history of the falcon — exploring the bird's biology, its role in human culture from ancient falconry to modern conservation, and its powerful hold on the human imagination. Macdonald's memoir H is for Hawk, about training a goshawk while grieving her father's death, won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Costa Book of the Year, and was a number one bestseller. Her audiobooks and books offer listeners and readers extraordinary nature writing that weaves together natural history, memoir, and cultural observation with rare beauty and intelligence.