Jane Alexander is a four-time Academy Award nominee, Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress. She is also a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, as well as former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts. Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth (Knopf) is a moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists.
