Bill Schutt is an EmeritusProfessor of Biology at LIU Post and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. His newest non-fiction book, Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans garnered a full page rave review in the New York Times, a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and more great notices from The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal and more.
Schutt is currently working on Feet First: A Natural History from Fins to Fetishes ( W.W. Norton), and Desi: The Vampire Bat (The Creative Company).
Pump: A Natural History of the Heart was published in September 2021 and is currently available everywhere books are sold. Pump received great reviews from Publisher’s Weekly (starred review), Kirkus Reviews, The Wall Street Journal, Cool Green Science, and elsewhere. Schutt’s Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History, garnered widespread raves from The New York Times (Editor’s Choice) The Boston Globe and a long list of reviewers. Schutt’s first popular science book, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, was selected as a Best Book of 2008 by Library Journal and Amazon, and was chosen for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers program.
Schutt’s first novel, Hell’s Gate, was published in 2016. The Himalayan Codex (R.J. MacCready novel #2) followed in June 2017 and The Darwin Strain (R.J. MacCready novel #3) made its debut in August 2019.
Born in New York City and raised on Long Island by parents who encouraged his love for turning over stones and peering under logs, Schutt quickly grew a passion for the natural world, with its enormous wonders and its increasing vulnerability.
Schutt received his Ph.D. in zoology from Cornell and held a post-doctoral fellowship at the AMNH where he received a Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Grant. He has published over two dozen peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from terrestrial locomotion in vampire bats to the precarious, arboreal copulatory behavior of a marsupial mouse. His research has been featured in Natural History, The New York Times, Newsday, The Economist, and Discover. Schutt lives in New York with his wife.
Bill Schutt, Author & Zoologist 