S1: E2: Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography by James H. McCommons

Author James H. McCommons speaks with the U.P. Notable Books Book Club about his award winning book Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography JAMES H. MCCOMMONS joined the Northern Michigan University faculty English dept. in 2001. He is a veteran journalist, specializing in ecology, environmental, and travel topics. He has written hundreds of general interest magazine articles. In the past few years, McCommons has contributed to the History Channel, Next American City, Wildlife Conservation, Organic Gardening, Backpacker, The Oregonian, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Discover, and Michigan History. He attended the Art Institute of Boston majoring in photography and later earned a B.A. in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. After several years of newspaper work and a stint in corporate communications, he moved to upstate New York where he was a freelance journalist from 1990 to 1997. During this period, he earned an M.A. in magazine journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and an M.S. in environmental science from College of Environmental Science and Forestry-SUNY. McCommons is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.