Marissa Landrigan’s Seven Nonfiction Writers on the Natural World

I’ve always been drawn to writing about the natural world: nonfiction that engages with a particular geography, explores wild or backyard landscapes, travels into the mysteries of medicine, the animal brain, the limits of the solar system. In environmental or place-based nonfiction, I’m drawn to the confluence of many threads of existence, as the authors locate themselves in the context of something larger, whether an ecosystem, a community, or the universe.