Doug Peacock  is a renowned grizzly bear expert and nature writer. A Vietnam vet and former Green Beret medic, his memoirs, The Grizzly Years and Walking it Off, chronicle the healing of his war-torn soul through his relationship with this quintessential carnivore. He is also the author of iBaja! and served as the wild grizzly consultant for the classic 1988 Jean-Jacques Junnaud film, The Bear. 

Doug is the author of In the Shadow of the Sabretooth and, with his wife Andrea, co-authored the book The Essential Grizzly. Doug also writes extensively for magazines, including Audubon, Backpacker and Outside. Peacock was named a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow and a 2011 Lannan Fellow. He lives just north of Yellowstone in the Paradise Valley of Montana.

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