Elisabeth Tova Bailey
 Elisabeth Tova Bailey is the author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010 Algonquin Books ISBN 978-1565126060) which won the 2010 John Burroughs Medal the Natural History Literature category of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award (joint award) and the non-fiction category of the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.