booktalk

I’d like to invite you to join me Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library in Washington, D.C. as I talk about my book Raising America’s Zoo: How Two Wild Gorillas Helped Transform the National Zoo. This unique story shares the heartbreaks and triumphs of the...

In 1955 my father-in-law Nick Arundel brought a pair of gorillas from Africa on a commercial flight to America and donated them to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. It was the beginning of dramatic changes for the gorillas and for the zoo that would evolve from an antiquated animal park to an...