Laura Krantz

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Laura Krantz is a journalist, editor and producer, in both radio and print. Her podcast, Wild Thing, has received critical acclaim from Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic, and is now a series of non-fiction middle-grade books. Aside from Wild Thing, Laura edits, consults and produces on several other podcasts. Formerly, she edited and produced at NPR in Washington, DC, for multiple shows including Morning Edition and Weekend Edition; later she served as the lead editor for Take Two at KPCC in Los Angeles. Her writing has appeared in Popular Science, Smithsonian Magazine, Outside, High Country News, Newsweek and, her personal favorite, the Archie McPhee Catalog.

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Laura Krantz THE SEARCH FOR SASQUATCH came out of the first season of my podcast, Wild Thing. I had done two years of research and reporting about a relative of mi…moreTHE SEARCH FOR SASQUATCH came out of the first season of my podcast, Wild Thing. I had done two years of research and reporting about a relative of mine who was a Bigfoot expert and also a well-regarded scientist. That all went into the podcast, which was aimed at adults, but then I started to hear from parents who were listening with their kids and teachers who were using elements of it in their classrooms and realized there was an opportunity to write a middle grade, nonfiction book!(less)
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“I think for some people it's the idea that the world is still wild enough and untamed and unpaved and unexplored that something like Bigfoot could be out there. I think we want that sense of mystery and that feeling that there's still things to find out there, because if we already know everything, then well, what's the fun in that?... I think, too, there's a sort of recognition that we need to preserve these wild spaces. It's almost an environmental mandate, a desire to preserve the sorts of places that Bigfoot could exist in, even if Bigfoot doesn't really exist.”
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“I think for some people it's the idea that the world is still wild enough and untamed and unpaved and unexplored that something like Bigfoot could be out there. I think we want that sense of mystery and that feeling that there's still things to find out there, because if we already know everything, then well, what's the fun in that?... I think, too, there's a sort of recognition that we need to preserve these wild spaces. It's almost an environmental mandate, a desire to preserve the sorts of places that Bigfoot could exist in, even if Bigfoot doesn't really exist.”
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