Thomas Conuel

Thomas Conuel is the acclaimed author of Quabbin: The Accidental Wilderness, the true story of how four towns and six villages in the Swift River Valley of Massachusetts were flooded in order to make way for a giant reservoir supplying water for Boston and forty-three other cities and towns. He is coauthor of The Nature of Massachusetts and is the former Field Editor for the Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Sanctuary magazine. He has taught environmental journalism and nonfiction writing at Boston University, and lives with his family in the North of Quabbin region of Massachusetts.