Laura Krantz is a print and audio journalist whose critically acclaimed podcast Wild Thing explores the intersection between science and society. She spent 10 years as an editor and producer with NPR in Washington, D.C., and KPCC in Los Angeles, and her work has appeared in Smithsonian, Outside, and Popular Science. When Krantz discovered that her long-lost cousin, Grover Krantz, a distinguished anthropologist and professor at Washington State University, had devoted much of his career to the search for Bigfoot, she couldn’t quite believe it. A natural skeptic and a firm believer in facts, she decided to conduct her own quest. The Search for Sasquatch (Abrams Books for Young Readers) takes readers through the big guy’s fun, fascinating, and complex world. Could Bigfoot really be out there? Krantz explores a gray area between myth and science, taking readers on a strange, surreal, and surprising hunt, encouraging us to challenge our gut assumptions, open our minds to new possibilities, think critically, and use the scientific method along the way. Bigfoot might be important – even if we don’t find him – and Krantz asks that we evaluate the evidence she presents to make up our own minds.
