Who is Bruce Stutz?
and magazines including The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Discover, Scientific American, Natural History, Audubon, Conde Nast Traveler, and Travel & Leisure.
I have also worked on developing the editorial content for Science Storms, a new exhibition hall at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry scheduled to open in 2010.
I have been features editor of Audubon magazine (1992-1995) and Editor-in-Chief of Natural History (1996-1999). I served as Editor-in-Chief of Natural History magazine (1996-1999) and features editor of Audubon magazine (1992-1995). I am now a contributing to editor to OnEarth.
In 2006 Scribner’s published my second book, Chasing Spring, An American Journey Through a Changing Season. Also, that year, I co-authored Theories for Everything, a science history, published by National Geographic Books for which I wrote the introduction (link to it).
My first book, “Natural Lives, Modern Times: A Natural and Cultural History of the Delaware River” was published in 1991 by Crown and then in paperback in 1998 by University of Pennsylvania Press. (Selections from Natural Lives, Modern Times, are now available on Google books.)
Born in Allentown, PA, I attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, and then received a Schubert Playwrighting Fellowship to the University of Texas.
I moved to Brooklyn, NY in 1974 and after working in the theatre in New York City for a couple of years I began writing stories for a local Brooklyn weekly.
Although the work was supposed to support my playwrighting, I became more engaged in news reporting and soon found work at the local weekly paper in Florham Park, New Jersey. It was a hard but worthwhile apprenticeship and in 1979 I began working for Gannett’s Westchester, NY, daily newspapers in Ossining and White Plains. Having covered several stories on the Hudson River I decided my interest lay in writing on science, natural history, and the environment, so I left with the determination to freelance.
I began writing stories on the troubles of the vanishing commercial fishing industry along the New Jersey shore as the catch declined and housing development made fishing ports more valuable as second-home real estate.. I spent a great deal of time out with these fishermen on their boats and with their families when they were home and wrote articles for National Fisherman, a broadsheet that covered the commercial fishing industry. In this way I learned the intimate connection of the environment and nature to people and their culture—a subject that I continue to report on.