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Delia Owens

Biography

Delia Owens

Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa --- CRY OF THE KALAHARI, THE EYE OF THE ELEPHANT and SECRETS OF THE SAVANNA. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology and International Wildlife, among many others. She currently lives in Idaho, where she continues her support for the people and wildlife of Zambia. WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING is her first novel.

Delia Owens

Books by Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens - Fiction, Women's Fiction

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life --- until the unthinkable happens.