Mary Taylor Young

Naturalist and zoologist Mary Taylor Young has written on landscape, wildlife, and environmental conservation in the West for more than thirty years. Her twenty-two books include Land of Grass and Sky, The Guide to Colorado Birds, and Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years. Young was the 2018 Frank Waters Award honoree for a canon of writing revealing a deep understanding of the American West. In 2019 she was inducted into the Colorado Authors' Hall of Fame, and in 2020 Young garnered the Colorado Authors League's Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Castle Rock, Colorado.