Helen Macdonald
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Biography
Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer, naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. They are best known as the author of H is for Hawk, which won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and Costa Book Award; in 2016, it won the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger in France. Macdonald is the child of British photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald. Macdonald is non-binary and uses she/they pronouns.
Known For
After losing her beloved father, Helen finds herself saved by an unlikely friendship with a stubborn hawk named Mabel. Through the bond, Helen rediscovers the beauty of being alive.
H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald's bestseller H Is for Hawk told the story of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. The goshawk is one of Mother Nature's own fighter jets, capable of finding and killing its prey with the speed of a lightning bolt. Now Macdonald digs deeper into the world of these raptors by following a family in the wild while raising and training a new goshawk of her own.
H Is for Hawk: A New Chapter
Author Helen Macdonald follows Britain’s greatest river over four seasons, encountering salmon, beavers and the microscopic creatures helping to answer science's biggest questions.
The River: A Year in the Life of the Tay
Author and naturalist Helen Macdonald embarks on a clockwise loop around the M25 to discover if there is a wild side to Britain's busiest road.