Charles Hood
Charles Hood has been a factory worker, a ski instructor, a dish washer, and a nature guide in Africa. He later went on to receive an MFA in poetry from UC Irvine, studying with Nobel Prize-winner Louise Glück. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Antelope Valley College.
Hood has published 23 books, including Wild Sonoma, with a foreword by Jane Goodall, and A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat, which was named the Nonfiction Book of the Year by the editors of the Foreword book review. His books about the world after dark include Nature at Night, from Timber Press, and Nocturnalia, Heyday Books in Berkeley.
Prior to these, his book Wild LA was named a Nonfiction Book of the Year by the California Association of Independent Booksellers. It has a 4.9 star rating on Amazon and is in its 5th printing.