Teale, Edwin Way (1899–1980)

US naturalist and author. His first nature book, Grassroots Jungles, appeared in 1937 and helped promote an appreciation of the environment long before it became a cause. Wandering through Winter, the final volume in his natural history of the four seasons in America, won a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction in 1965. Teale graduated from Earlham College in 1922 and was a staff writer for Popular Science magazine from 1928 to 1941.

Born in Joliet, Illinois, Teale was the only child of a railroad mechanic. His lifelong interest in natural history grew out of childhood summers on his grandfather's northern Indiana farm.