Austin, Elizabeth S.

Elizabeth S. Austin, author and ornithologist, was a Research Associate of the Florida State Museum. She authored several birding books, all represented here, including The Birds That Stopped Flying, Penguins, and The Random House Book of Birds, co-authored by Oliver Austin. She was the editor of Frank Chapman in Florida, and wrote a weekly newspaper column on birds, "Wild Adventure."

Her husband Oliver L. Austin, Jr., was born in 1903 and educated at Wesleyan University and Harvard (Ph.D.). He was the author of numerous books including Birds of the World (1961). His positions included Curator of Ornithology at the Florida State Museum of the University of Florida. Previously he was director of the Austin Ornithological Research Station on Cape Cod. He was the editor of Auk, the Journal of the American Ornithologists Union and of the Bulletin of the Florida State Museum .