William W. Warner

William W. Warner (1920–2008) was an American biologist and writer, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay (1976), which chronicled life among Chesapeake Bay crabbers. A Princeton graduate (1943), he served as a WWII aerial photo analyst in the Pacific and later worked in foreign service public relations before turning to natural history writing. His other notable works include Distant Water (1983) and Into the Porcupine Cave (1999).