Beautiful Swimmers

{{Short description|1976 nonfiction book by William W. Warner}}

{{Infobox book

| name = Beautiful Swimmers

| image = Beautiful-swimmers.jpg

| caption = Cover of first edition, art by Consuelo Hanks

| author = William W. Warner

| language = English

| genre = Nonfiction

| publisher = Back Bay Books

| pub_date = 1976

| pages = 304

| isbn = 0-316-92326-5

| oclc = 1659680

}}

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (1976) is a nonfiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen. The book takes its name from the generic name of the blue crab, Callinectes, which is Greek for "beautiful swimmer." It won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.{{cite web|title=Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Nonfiction|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224184433/http://www.pulitzer.org/|archivedate=24 February 2008|accessdate=2008-02-28|publisher=pulitzer.org|format=web}} As of the time of the author’s death in 2008, the book had never been out of print.

{{cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=2008-04-30 |title=William W. Warner, Chesapeake Bay Author, Dies at 88 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/books/30warner.html |work=New York Times |location= |access-date=2024-03-05}}