Off the Page: Jack E. Davis

Jack E. Davis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a Distinguished Professor of History and the Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities at the University of Florida. After earning a PhD in history from Brandeis University in 1994, he taught at Eckerd College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and at the University of Jordan in Amman as a Fulbright scholar before moving to the University of Florida in 2003. In 2024, The Florida House on Capitol Hill chose him as Florida’s distinguished writer of the year.

In 2019, Davis was the recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, awarded to support the writing of "The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird." Published in 2022, "The Bald Eagle" was chosen as a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, a Los Angeles Times top-five nonfiction book of 2022, and an Amazon and Apple best book of 2022. The author or editor of ten books, including the award-winning An Everglades Providence: Marjory Stoneman Douglas and the American Environmental Century, Davis has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Orion, Saturday Evening Post, Sierra, Audubon, and Smithsonian.

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