The Hickory Stick Bookshop is delighted to welcome world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd, who will be signing copies of her debut memoir, “A Woman Among Wolves” on Saturday, October 25th at 2 pm.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for company, she faced the rigors of the Montana winter in an isolated cabin without running water or electricity.
Boyd forded icy rivers, strapped on skis to navigate thick stands of lodgepole pine, and monitored packs from the air in a tiny bush plane that skimmed the treetops so she could count wolves and see what they were feeding on. She faced down grizzly bears, mountain lions, wolverines—and the occasional trapper—as she stalked her quarry: a handful of wolves that were making their way south from Canada into Montana. Resilient and resourceful, she devised her own trapping methods and negotiated with locals as wolf populations grew from the first natural colonizer to more than 3,000 wolves in the West today.
In this captivating book, Boyd takes the reader on a wild ride from the early days of wolf research to the present-day challenges of wolf management across the globe, highlighting her interactions with an apex predator that captured her heart and her undying admiration. Her writing resonates with her indomitable spirit as she explores the intricate balance of human and wolf coexistence.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Diane Boyd has five decades of expertise on behavior, conservation, and management of wild wolf populations. She began her career in 1977 with Dr. L. David Mech’s Minnesota wolf research. She moved to Montana in 1979 to study gray wolf recovery in the Rocky Mountains. Her work has focused on wolf ecology, dispersal, habitat use, prey selection, genetic relationships, and social dimensions of wolf-human conflicts. She has collaborated on wolf research in British Columbia, Alberta, Mexico, Italy, and Romania. She has published more than fifty articles in scientific journals, book chapters, and popular literature. Diane recently retired from field work but is continuing her wolf conservation efforts through teaching and writing. Her debut memoir, A Woman Among Wolves: My Forty Year Journey Through Wolf Recovery, won the 2025 High Plains International Book Award for Creative Nonfiction/Memoir.
PRAISE FOR THE BOOK
“This is a book about a courageous woman. Often alone in wild country, she endures hardships and faces danger in many forms in her passion and determination to better understand and protect the wolves she loves. It is a book I highly recommend: it is informative, fascinating, and beautifully written.”
–Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE & UN Messenger of Peace
“A Woman Among Wolves reads as much as an adventure tale as a scientific study….Matching wits with wolves, dealing with trappers, catching wolverines and cougars in wolf traps, and negotiating with the locals….Boyd’s life with wolves is irresistible.”
–Booklist
“[A] swashbuckling memoir recounting episodes from a career spent studying and protecting wolves….There are moments of levity… However, it’s the tales of adventure and derring-do that will keep readers turning pages….Nature lovers will be riveted.”
–Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review
This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend this event, you may reserve signed copies of A Woman Among Wolves by calling The Hickory Stick Bookshop at (860) 868 0525, or shopping our website 24/7 at www.hickorystickbookshop.com.
Hickory Stick Bookshop
2 Green Hill Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794
https://hickorystickbookshop.com/event/2025-10-25/diane-boyd-book-signing
