Bill Schutt
Joined Atlas Obscura in 2021
Bill Schutt (@BillSchuttBooks) is a vertebrate zoologist, bat biologist, author and Emeritus Professor of Biology at Long Island University.
Bill's new book, "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart" has garnered great reviews from Publisher's Weekly (starred review), The Wall Street Journal, Nature, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and elsewhere.
Schutt's last non-fiction book, "Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History" (Algonquin) examines the phenomenon of cannibalism in nature and among humans. With amazing reviews from The New York Times (Editor's Choice), Boston Globe, Publisher's Weekly, Scientific American and The New Yorker, "Cannibalism" was named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon and was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist.
“Pump” and "Cannibalism" were illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne, renowned artist and Schutt's long-time friend and AMNH colleague.
Readers can purchase Pump, Cannibalism, and Bill’s other fiction and nonfiction books wherever books are sold.
