Author

Books by Delia Owens

Delia Owens is an American wildlife scientist and author who spent years studying lion behavior in Botswana and Zambia before returning to the United States. She co-wrote three non-fiction books about African wildlife conservation with her husband Mark Owens before publishing Where the Crawdads Sing in 2018, her debut novel. The book became one of the best-selling debut novels in American publishing history. Owens has lived in North Carolina and Idaho; the North Carolina coastal marsh setting draws on her deep familiarity with wild landscapes.