Paul Schullery, the author, coauthor, or editor of more than forty books, is the recipient of numerous awards for his work as a writer and conservationist, including honorary doctorates from Ohio University and Montana State University; the Wallace Stegner Award from the University of Colorado Center of the American West; a Panda award for the PBS film on Yellowstone; and awards for his work on grizzly bear recovery, conservation history, and national park policy. Schullery advised and participated in Ken Burns's National Parks documentary and is currently scholar-in-residence at the Montana State University Library. In the world of fly fishing, Paul learned the sport during his years as a Yellowstone Ranger-Naturalist in the 1970s and then served as the first executive director of the American Museum of Fly Fishing and editor of the museum's journal. A life member of Trout Unlimited and Fly Fishers International, his fly-fishing books include American Fly Fishing: A History, Royal Coachman, Shupton's Fancy, Cowboy Trout, The Rise, and The Fishing Life. He received the Roderick Haig-Brown Award from Fly Fisher's International and was inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame in 2014. Paul lives in Bozeman, Montana, with his artist wife Marsha Karle.