Elisabeth Tova Bailey
About
Elisabeth Tova Bailey is the author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating which won the 2010 John Burroughs Medal, the Natural History Literature category of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award, and the non-fiction category of the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. In the book she describes her observations of an individual land snail in the species Neohelix albolabris which lived in a terrarium next to her while she was confined to bed through Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
