Julia Whitty
Julia Whitty | |
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| Born | Bogotá, Colombia |
| Occupations | Filmmaker, environmental journalist, author |
| Known for | Underwater and nature documentaries and books, environmental correspondence for Mother Jones |
| Awards | John Burroughs Medal (2008) PEN USA Award |
Julia Whitty is an Australian-American documentary filmmaker, environmental journalist, author, and adventurer.[1][2] Born in Bogotá, Colombia to a Tasmanian father and South Asian mother, her family immigrated to the United States in her early childhood.[3] She is known for her extensive career in nature documentaries, her three award-winning books on the natural world[4][5], and her years as environmental correspondent for Mother Jones magazine.[6][2]
Ursula K. LeGuin called her writing "wonderfully various, unpredictable, and subversive"[7]
Career
[edit]Filmmaking
[edit]Whitty spent over two decades writing, producing, photographing, and editing more than 70 nature documentaries, including two 26-part series.[2][8][9] Specializing in underwater cinematography, her films have aired globally on major networks including PBS[10][11], The Discovery Channel.[3], and National Geographic[1]
Journalism and writing
[edit]Whitty transitioned into print media, writing both fiction and nonfiction, contributing articles, essays, and short stories to publications such as Harper's,[12] The Paris Review,[13] the New York Times,[14] Grist,[15] Zoetrope: All-Story,[16] and others[17]. For nearly a decade, she served as the Environmental Correspondent for Mother Jones magazine, where she specialized in long-form journalism, with over 1000 articles and blog posts,[18] focusing on biodiversity loss, population issues, and the climate crisis.
Awards and honors
[edit]- A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga (2003):
- The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific:
- John Burroughs Medal[25][non-primary source needed][26][27][28]
- Kiriyama Prize[29][citation needed][30]
- PEN USA Award,[31][30] and others[28] (2008)
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize (2008)[32]
- Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
- Awards for environmental reporting
Bibliography
[edit]- A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga: Short Stories (2002)[40]
- The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific (2007)[41][42]
- Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean (2010)[43][44][45]
- The Thirteenth Tipping Point[46] (2007)[47]
- Undersea by Rachel Carson (2013) – collectible art printing with woodblocks and afterword by Julia Whitty[48][49][50][51]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "National Geographic Explorer - Plumbing the depths". nationalgeographic.com.
- 1 2 3 McConahey, Meg (25 July 2010). "Whitty's Quest for Discovery: Sebastopol naturalist, diver, and documentary filmmaker turned award-winning author". The Press Democrat. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- 1 2 "About". Julia Whitty. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Amazon – About the author". amazon.com.
- ↑ "Encyclopedia.com - Contemporary Authors - Julia Whitty". encyclopedia.com.
- ↑ "Iowa State University bio". iastate.edu.
- ↑ "Tortoise cover with blurb". archive.org.
- ↑ Movie Lover 93 (14 April 2019). 20 Years With The Dolphins. Retrieved 17 August 2026 – via YouTube.
{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Doralisa (21 February 2006). "Introducing Julia Whitty". Oceana USA. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "PBS Need To Know". pbs.org.
- ↑ "Grist re: Need To Know". grist.org.
- ↑ "Harper's - Julia Whitty". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Julia Whitty". The Paris Review. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "NY Times – Fragile Edge excerpt". nytimes.com.
- ↑ "Grist – articles by Julia Whitty". grist.org.
- ↑ "Julia Whitty". Zoetrop All-Story. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Publishers Weekly review". publishersweekly.com.
- ↑ "Julia Whitty bylines". Mother Jones. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "O. Henry Prize Stories 1999 Table of Contents". bookshop.org.
- ↑ "Random House O. Henry Prize past winners". randomhouse.com.
- ↑ "Prize Stories 1999: The O. Henry Awards". bookfever. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ National Magazine Award. "Awards and Honors" (PDF). Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Julia Whitty". Ploughshares. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award Winners Announced". JFK Library. 4 March 2003. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Past Winners". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "American Museum of Natural History – John Burroughs Medal 2008 awarded" (PDF). amnh.org.
- ↑ "BookPrize – Julia Whitty". book-prize-index.vercel.app.
- 1 2 "Awards". Julia Whitty.
- ↑ "Kiriyama Prize winners". librarything.com.
- 1 2 "BookBrowse - Author Snapshot". bookbrowse.com.
- ↑ "PEN USA Awards". Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Dayton Literary Peace Prize". daytonliterarypeaceprize.org.
- ↑ "Orion Book Award for Deep Blue Home". orionmagazine.org.
- ↑ "Washington Post - Best of Nonfiction Book 2010". iastate.edu.
- ↑ "John Bartlow Martin Award - Fate of the Ocean". medill.northwestern.edu.
- ↑ Guyette, Curt (4 December 2012). "Project Censored: Uncovering the most underreported news stories of 2012". San Antonio Current. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Winners: SEJ 10th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". Society of Environmental Journalists. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Poynter – SEJ winners". poynter.org.
- ↑ "Rona Jaffe Award 2010 announced". publishersweekly.com.
- ↑ Treadway, Jessica (Fall 2002). "Review of "A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga"". Ploughshares. Retrieved 16 August 2026.
- ↑ Morris, Holly (3 June 2007). "Water World". New York Times. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Oprah.com review". oprah.com.
- ↑ Heinrichs, Christine (May 2010). "review of Deep Blue Home". Earth Island Journal. Retrieved 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "Washington Post Opinion - Deep Blue Home". washingtonpost.com.
- ↑ "LA Times - Deep Blue Home". latimes.com.
- ↑ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2006/11/thirteenth-tipping-point/
- ↑ "KUER – radio interview". kuer.org.
- ↑ "Undersea by Rachel Carson – Nawakum Press". nawakumpress.com.
- ↑ "Undersea by Rachel Carson auction". pbagalleries.com.
- ↑ "Undersea by Rachel Carson review". vialibri.net.
- ↑ "Undersea by Rachel Carson review". thewholebookexperience.com.
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