California Bestiary, A
Mona Caron grew up in the Swiss Italian Alps, among rivers, mosses, ferns, and lizards, where she dissected flowers instead of listening to lessons. She moved to San Francisco to study illustration and subsequently became one of the city's premier muralists. Much of her work deals with human history, utopian possibility, and natural history.Rebecca Solnit grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she crossed paths with a great many bluebelly lizards, as well as gopher snakes, mule deer, and quail. Many of their books have California, San Francisco, and western landscapes and nature as their subjects.