Sy Montgomery

Sy Montgomery’s 37 books for both adults and children have garnered many honors. “The Soul of an Octopus” was a 2015 Finalist for the National Book Awards. “The Good Good Pig,” her memoir of life with her pig, Christopher Hogwood, is an international bestseller. She is the winner of the New England Independent Booksellers Association Nonfiction Award, the Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Henry Bergh Award for Nonfiction (given by the ASPCA for Humane Education) and dozens of other honors. Her work with the man-eating tigers, the subject of her book “Spell of the Tiger,” was made into in a National Geographic television documentary she scripted and narrated. She also developed and scripted Chris award-winning “Mother Bear Man” for National Geographic TV, about her friend Ben Kilham who raises and releases orphaned bear cubs.

She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an honorary degree, Doctor of Human Letters, from Keene State College in 2004, Franklin Pierce University and also Southern New Hampshire University in 2011.