Award-Winning Nature Author and Illustrator David Allen Sibley to Speak at Ohio Northern University

Award-winning writer, artist, illustrator and naturalist David Allen Sibley will be the featured speaker for this fall’s Terry Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in the Life Sciences at Ohio Northern University.

Sibley’s presentation will take place Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. The lecture will be free and open to the public.

Sibley is the author and illustrator of the series of successful guides to nature that bear his name, including the New York Times bestseller “The Sibley Guide to Birds.” He has contributed art and articles to Smithsonian, Science, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, Birding, BirdWatching, and North American Birds, and wrote an illustrated syndicated column for The New York Times.

Additionally, Sibley is the recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Birding Association and the Linnaean Society of New York’s Eisenmann Medal. He lives in Deerfield, Mass.

ONU’s Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in Life Sciences, named in honor of Terry D. Keiser, BSEd ’64, brings nationally prominent life sciences scholars to Ohio Northern’s campus each year to lecture and interact with students.