Dorcas MacClintock

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Dorcas MacClintock (born Eason ; born July 16, 1932 in New York City , New York ), sometimes also called Dorcas Eason MacClintock , is an American biologist , non-fiction author and sculptor .

Life

MacClintock is the daughter of James T. and Helen Eason, née Kay. Her father was a businessman. From 1947 to 1953 she was a student assistant at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. In 1954 she received a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College in Northampton , Massachusetts . She also studied at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts with the renowned sculptor Elisabeth Gordon Chandler (1913-2006) and her husband, the sculptor and medalist Laci Anthony de Gerenday (1911-2001), and she attended summer workshops with Gerald Shippen . In June 1956 she married the invertebrate paleontologist Copeland MacClintock (1930-2019). From this marriage two daughters were born. In 1957 she graduated with a Master of Arts from the University of Wyoming . In the same year she became a research assistant and in 1959 a research associate at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco . She was the curator of the osteological collection from 1965 to 1967 and in 1980 she became a board member of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut .

MacClintock is a member of the American Society of Mammalogists , the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , the Society of Animal Artists (board member since 1976, jury member 1980-1996), the National Sculpture Society, and Sigma Xi .

In addition to ten books, she wrote numerous articles for magazines, including Audubon Magazine and Pacific Discovery .

In 1973 her book A natural history of Giraffes (with silhouette illustrations by Ugo Mochi ) won the Science Book Award of the New York Academy of Sciences for outstanding scientific literature. The Children's Book Council put it on the shortlist of the year's outstanding books.

Fonts

  • Squirrels of North America , Van Nostrand, 1970.
  • A Natural History of Giraffes , Scribner, 1973. (with illustrations by Ugo Mochi)
  • A Natural History of Zebras , Scribner, 1976. (with illustrations by Ugo Mochi)
  • Horses As I See Them , Scribner, 1980. (with illustrations by Ugo Mochi)
  • A Natural History of Raccoons , Scribner, 1981.
  • A Raccoon's First Year , Scribner, 1982.
  • African Images , Scribner, 1984. (with illustrations by Ugo Mochi)
  • Phoebe the Kinkajou , Scribner, 1985.
  • Red Pandas: A Natural History , Scribner, 1988.
  • Animals Observed: A Look at Animals in Art , Maxwell Macmillan, 1993.

literature

  • Anne Commire: Something about the author , Volume 8, Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1976, ISBN 0-81030-064-8 , pp. 122-123
  • Mary K. Ash: Who's Who of American Women, 1999-2000 , 21st Edition, Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1998, ISBN 0-8379-0424-2 , p. 645
  • Dorcas MacClintock. Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2001. Gale In Context: Biography, accessed October 12, 2019

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SURNAME MacClintock, Dorcas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eason MacClintock, Dorcas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American biologist, non-fiction author and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York