EUGENE POOL’s experiences as a lifelong birder, on which he drew for FLY FOR YOUR LIFE, include visits to the secret burrows of storm petrels on Matinicus Rock in Maine; the winter grounds of whooping cranes in Aransas, Texas; and the vast seabird colonies on the cliffs of Ramsey Island, England.
His books for young readers include The Captain of Battery Park, The Ocelot Secret, The Art of Fairy Tales, and the IPPY award-winning Heroic Women of the Art World. For adults he wrote The 100-Year Secret, on a Holocaust cover-up, and Summer House, a collection of poems. Other writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Colby College Library Journal, and other media.
After graduating from Harvard, Pool taught art history and English at two private schools, Buckingham Browne & Nichols in Cambridge, MA and Winsor in Boston. He and his family spend most summers on North Haven, Maine.
