Sue Hubbell

Suzanne Hubbell (née Gilbert; January 28, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was an American author. Her books ''A Country Year'' and ''A Book of Bees'' were selected by ''The New York Times'' ''Book Review'' as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for ''The New Yorker'', the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', ''Smithsonian'' and ''Time'', and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of ''The New York Times''.

Sue Hubbell was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She studied biology and was a librarian at Brown University until 1972, when she and her husband moved to the Missouri Ozarks. Hubbell also lived in Washington, D.C., and Milbridge, Maine. She was the sister of the author Bil Gilbert, who also writes about natural history. Hubbell died on October 13, 2018, at the age of 83 in Bar Harbor, Maine, from complications of dementia. Provided by Wikipedia