Delia Owens

American zoologist and author

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association with Simwinga

  • Hammerskjoeld Simwinga
    In Hammerskjoeld Simwinga

    …1986 by Mark Owens and Delia Owens, American zoologists who had gone to the region to study lions but instead turned their attention to the rampant poaching of elephants in North Luangwa National Park. With funding from a German zoological society, they set up antipoaching patrols and began community development…

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authorship of “Where the Crawdads Sing”

  • Where the Crawdads Sing
    In Where the Crawdads Sing

    …Sing, debut novel by author Delia Owens, first published in 2018 and later adapted into a feature film starring Daisy Edgar-Jones in 2022. The book quickly became a best-seller, selling over 1.1 million copies in its first year and surpassing 12 million copies sold by 2022. The book’s murder-mystery plotline…

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