Ask the Author: Jill Hunting
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Jill Hunting
I was on tour with my first book, FINDING PETE, and planned a day off to celebrate my birthday. My present to myself would be to visit the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. A vertebrate paleontologist there had told me that if I were ever to visit, he would set out all the fossils my great-grandfather collected in 1872. When I arrived at the museum, all the bones were spread out on tables. Some looked like white truffles. I didn't know that the thrill I felt that day would lead to a book, but I was captivated by the idea that my ancestor went on a paleontology expedition when he was 20 and found a dinosaur fossil. I couldn't stop thinking about it. Gradually, I realized that my curiosity was a book in the making. I finished the manuscript during the COVID-19 sequester.
Jill Hunting
Yes, but I didn't write it. I heard it from the late food writer Jonathan Gold, who said he once ate a sea urchin that was alive on his plate. Before eating it, he saw the animal looking up at him.
Jill Hunting
Two books about fossil hunters. I didn't like the first one, but I am enjoying Charles H. Sternberg, THE LIFE OF A FOSSIL HUNTER, originally published in 1909. He not only finds fossils, he imagines what the creature who lived millions of years ago was like.
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