A former river guide and archeologist, Scott Thybony writes books and articles for major magazines and newspapers. His interviews have ranged from astronauts to medicine men, and his travels through North America have resulted in award-winning magazines articles. Having lived with Navajo Indians in the American Southwest and the Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, he brings to his writing an enthusiasm for the natural world and those living close to it.
• Wrote Burntwater, University of Arizona Press. Chosen as a PEN Center West finalist for creative nonfiction and selected for the "Original Voices" series, Borders Books.
• Wrote books, features articles, and essays for the National Geographic Society with more than 400,000 copies of Canyon Country in print. Wrote a story of canyon exploration for National Geographic magazine, translated into a dozen languages. Wrote articles and a regular column as Contributing Editor for National Geographic Traveler, winning a first place Lowell Thomas Award.
• Wrote cover stories on the Grand Canyon for Men's Journal and Arizona Highways; an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times and articles in Outside on the Canyon, and sold a film option on a canyon disappearance.
• Wrote the award-winning Official Guide to Hiking the Grand Canyon and other trail guides.
• Wrote and broadcast National Public Radio commentaries on the Grand Canyon. Interviewed on radio and the television series, "Unsolved Mysteries" and "National Geographic Today," concerning the canyon country.
Related Experience: • Received National Geographic Expeditions Council grants to search for rock art sites and fossil tracksites in the Grand Canyon, 1998 and 2003; • Published photographs in National Geographic, Arizona Highways, and Plateau Journal; • Chosen by The Wilderness Society as "Voice of the Land" for the Grand Canyon, 2000; • Received the First Place Journalism Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for a Smithsonian article on the Black Seminole; • Ran 50 trips on the Colorado River as a guide and river ranger, 1972 – 1976; completed a traverse beneath the North Rim of Grand Canyon, Nankoweap to Tapeats, 1972; fought the Rampart Cave fire; and worked at Phantom Ranch; and • Education Coordinator, Museum of Northern Arizona; Research Associate, Center for Colorado Plateau Studies; majored in anthropology, University of Arizona.
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