Candace Savage

Candace Sherk Savage (born 1949) is a Canadian non-fiction writer. She won the 2012 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape.^[1]

Candace Sherk was born in the Peace River Country of Alberta, Canada, and attended the University of Alberta. She is a frequent contributor to numerous periodicals including Canadian Geographic.^[2] A selection of her magazine articles was collected in Curious by Nature (2005).

Savage lives in Saskatchewan.

Selected works

• Our Nell (1979)
• Wild Mammals of Western Canada (1981) (with Arthur Savage)
• Wonder of Canadian Birds (1985)
• Pelicans (1986)
• Eagles of North America (1987)
• Wolves (1988)^[3]
• Grizzly Bears (1990)
• Trash Attack! (1990)
• Get Growing! (1991)
• Peregrine Falcons (1992)
• Eat Up! (1992)
• Wild Cats (1993)
• Aurora: The Mysterious Northern Lights (1994)
• Bird Brains: The Intelligence of Crows, Ravens, Magpies and Jays (1995)
• Cowgirls (1996)
• The Nature of Wolves: An Intimate Portrait (1996)
• Mother Nature: Animal Parents and their Young (1997)
• Beauty Queens: A Playful History (1998)
• Witch: The Wild Ride from Wicked to Wicca (2000)
• Prairie: A Natural History (2004)
• Curious by Nature (2005)
• Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World (2005)
• Bees: Nature's little wonders (2008)
• A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape (2012)

References

External links

• Official website
• Candace Sherk Savage at Library of Congress Authorities, with 24 catalogue records