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Ive been charged by elephants before.. Bronx, NY. This is especially bad at the last fifty pages or so. Once again Delia was fascinated by the fact that the herds were made up only of closely bonded females and their offspring. Ms. Owens said she had nothing to do with the shooting and was never accused of wrongdoing but declined to elaborate on the circumstances. Upcoming authors: Delia Owens and Mary Alice Monroe, Monday, Feb. 20; Robert Dugoni, Monday, March 13; and David Baldacci, Monday, March 27, Tickets: Tickets are no longer available for this years series. Happy enough with the finished product, she sent her manuscript out into the world, quickly securing an agent and publisher who were immediately convinced they had a hit on their hands. His reporting suggests the Owens set up a brutal operation to go after anyone who was a threat to the elephant reserve. See, Ive never thought of myself as especially good at writing; I just love it, but its frustrating because theres no such thing as a perfect sentence. A first-time novelist, making her fiction debut at age 70, wrote a coming-of-age thriller that unexpectedly became a best-selling juggernaut, was selected by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, and was snapped up to be made into a feature film. She studied zoology at the University of Georgia and holds a doctorate in Animal Behavior from the University of California, Davis. [1] Cry of the Kalahari and her two other non-fictional bestselling books, The Eye of the Elephant and Secrets of the Savanna, all concern the couple's research and conservation work. Actress Reese Witherspoon loved it so much, she added it to her popular book club and produced the new film adaptation. When: Luncheons begin at noon. Delia Owens (born c. 1949)[1] is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist. So the news continues to hang over the film like Spanish moss over a murky bayou. When you deal with conservation, you make a lot of enemies, she says with a heavy sigh.