Central Park in the Dark explores a natural world that flourishes in the midst of a crowded and mechanized city. These exuberant essays lead the reader through the cycle of seasons as experienced by nocturnal beasts (raccoons, bats, black skimmers), insects (moths, wasps, fireflies, crickets), and other denizens of the park's trees and swamps and thickets. Alongside a cadre of amateur and expert naturalists, Marie Winn reveals a world that lies hidden in the dark between the bright lights and traffic of Fith Avenue and Central Park West.
"Marie Winn, the author of Red Tails in Love: Pale Male's Story, now turns her attention to Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife. Her latest book is more engaging narrative than field guide, accompanied by sparse illustrations, but it is filled with keen insights and appealing anecdotes about bugs, birds and other critters that you generally wouldn't mind meeting in the park after dark."—The New York Times
Marie Winn is the author of over a dozen books, among them Red-Tails in Love: Pale Male's Story and The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life. Formerly a birdwatching and nature columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, she has also translated plays by Vaclav Havel for performance at the Public Theater in New York. She is married to the documentary filmmaker and palindromist Allan Miller and lives not far from Central Park.
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