Doris GoveDoris Gove has written six books for children and three hiking guides. Her most recent book, The Smokies Yukky Book: Weird, Creepy, and Completely Gross Stuff That Really, Really Happens Here is written for 3rd-5th-graders and is biologically accurate while being satisfyingly disgusting.

She has also written a gentler book on tree identification for early elementary students, biographies of a snake and a salamander, and a book about collecting animals to observe them and then returning them to their homes. These titles include:
--Miracle at Egg Rock: A Puffin's Story (Downeast Books)
--A Water Snake's Year (Simon & Schuster)
--Red-Spotted Newt (S & S)
--One Rainy Night (S & S)
--My Mother Talks to Trees (Peachtree)
--The Smokies Yukky Book (Great Smoky Mountains Association)

For adults, she has written three hiking guides, one on the southern section of the Appalachian Trail, and one guide to National Wildlife Refuges. These books emphasize the natural and cultural history of each area. She leads hikes for ElderHostel groups and writes nature guides and newsletter articles for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Gove's hiking books include:
--50 Hikes in the Mountains of Tennessee (WW Norton)
--Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee (Stackpole)
--Hiking Trails of the Smokies (Gove contributed about a quarter of the hike narratives)
--Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges of the Southeast (St. Martins)

Doris Gove was born in Seattle, grew up in Massachusetts, and graduated from Barnard College. After a Peace Corps teaching tour in Kenya, she received a PhD in zoology from The University of Tennessee. She is available through the Guild's Speakers' Bureau for speaking engagements.

 

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