Delia Owens, WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING
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Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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We're re-releasing Zibby's interview with Delia Owens just in time for the movie premiere of Where the Crawdads Sing on July 15th!! Delia is the coauthor of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist. A winner of the John Burroughs Award for nature writing, Delia has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and others. She wrote Cry of the Kalahari about her years living in the African wild studying lions and hyenas, and co-wrote The Eye of the Elephant and Secrets of the Savannah about her years studying elephants. Where the Crawdads Sing was Reese’s Book Club pick and is a #1 New York Times bestseller.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now. |
| 0:07.8 | Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:10.7 | It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or |
| 0:21.1 | less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this |
| 0:25.9 | podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, |
| 0:31.8 | wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can |
| 0:37.4 | learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com, |
| 0:39.5 | but really you're here to learn more about the authors, |
| 0:42.2 | and that is what we're going to do. |
| 0:44.4 | Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts |
| 0:46.9 | in the ZCast Podcast Network. |
| 0:49.4 | You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com |
| 0:51.9 | and definitely check out those shows as well. |
| 0:58.3 | Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Today, in honor of the release of the long-awaited where the Crodads Sing movie, |
| 1:05.1 | I am releasing again Delia Owens' episode with me from years ago. Delia Owens is the co-author of three |
| 1:14.0 | internationally best-selling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa, |
| 1:19.2 | including Cry of the Calahari. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature writing |
| 1:23.4 | and has been published in Nature, the African Journal of Ecology, and many others. She currently lives in North Carolina, where the Croddads sing is her first novel and has been on the bestseller list for basically years and years. |
| 1:37.0 | Enjoy a re-release of this episode, in case you missed it the first time. |
| 1:41.2 | This is before it became as big a sensation as it is now. And I am thrilled |
| 1:46.8 | to be re-releasing it. I cannot wait to see the movie. I am so excited. Hi, this is Delia Owens. |
| 1:52.7 | I loved coming on Zibby's podcasts. Moms don't have time to read books. Thanks for reading |
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