Beverly Mills

Beverly is co-author with her husband Anders of "A Wing and a Prayer: The Race to Save Our Vanishing Birds." (Simon & Schuster, April 2023) Her career included jobs as a reporter, features writer, and food editor at The News & Observer and The Miami Herald. She coauthored a syndicated column that appeared in 100 newspapers around the US and produced three books with nearly half a million copies in print.

Anders and Beverly’s book on bird conservation across the hemisphere grew out of their research and writing following the revelation that a third of the breeding birds in North America have been lost over the past 50 years. They began to write about the work underway to confront these losses, with led to the book project. They’ve traveled 25,000 researching this story over the past two years.

Anders and, Beverly have two grown children, Sam and Grey. They live in Raleigh, North Carolina, but spend about half the year traveling to keep up with the birds.