Marcia Bonta
{{short description|American naturalist and writer}}
{{infobox scientist|known_for=writings about Pennsylvanian flora and fauna|alma_mater=Bucknell University|fields=natural history
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Marcia Myers Bonta (born 1940) is an American naturalist and writer, known for her extensive writings about Pennsylvanian flora and fauna.
Biography
Marcia Bonta was born on July 11, 1940, in Camden, New Jersey.{{Cite web|url = http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/BiographiesDetailsPage/BiographiesDetailsWindow?failOverType=&query=&prodId=BIC1&windowstate=normal&contentModules=&display-query=&mode=view&displayGroupName=Biographies&limiter=&currPage=&disableHighlighting=false&displayGroups=&sortBy=&search_within_results=&p=BIC1&action=e&catId=&activityType=&scanId=&documentId=GALE%7CH1000119243&source=Bookmark&u=mlin_n_umass&jsid=02c853d0110ec3fc19ea60814a6158a7|title = Contemporary Authors Online|date = 2015|access-date = February 21, 2016|website = Biography in Context|publisher = Gale|last = |first = }} She earned a BA degree from Bucknell University in 1962, and has done extensive research on the history of women naturalists. She is the author of more than 300 articles and a long-running column in the Pennsylvania Game News.{{Cite book|last=Wayne|first=Tiffany K.|title = American Women of Science Since 1900: Essays A-H. Vol.1|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=gPGZJ_YuMwgC&pg=PA244|publisher = ABC-CLIO|year= 2011|isbn = 9781598841589|page=244}}
Selected works
- Escape to the Mountain, A. S. Barnes (San Diego, CA), 1980
- Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 1988
- Appalachian Spring, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1991
- Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists, Texas A&M University Press (College Station, TX), 1991
- Appalachian Autumn, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1994
- American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists, Editor, Texas A&M University Press (College Station, TX), 1995
- More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, PA), 1995
- Appalachian Summer, University of Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 1999
Awards
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Category:American women scientists
Category:Bucknell University alumni
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers
Category:American nature writers
Category:Writers from Pennsylvania