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biologists who wrote historical fiction
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
journalist, social critic, playwright, editor, botanist
Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)
biochemist, autobiographer, journalist
- Columbia University, Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Farley Mowat (1921-2014)
environmentalist, biologist
- University of Toronto
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)
zoologist, explorer, filmmaker, innovator, photographer, conservationist, oceanographer, inventor, Officer of the French Navy, marine biologist, engineer, biologist, film director, world traveler, producer
- École Navale, Collège Stanislas de Paris
Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)
translator, explorer, poet, diplomat, military personnel, ethnologist, linguist, cartographer, historian, zoologist, spy, anthropologist, traveler, naturalist
- University of Oxford
George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938)
anthropologist, zoologist, journalist, historian, naturalist
- Yale University
Margarita Engle (born 1951)
agronomist, botanist, poet, cynologist