Delia Owens

Delia Owens (born c. 1949) is an American author, zoologist, and conservationist. Her debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, topped The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2019 and The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 2020 for 32 non-consecutive weeks and was on the list for 135 weeks in total. It was turned into a 2022 hit feature film. She has also written the memoirs Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna, with her then-husband, Mark, about their time studying animals in Africa.