John Moran Author & Illustrator

John Moran's photography has appeared in many books and magazines, including Newsweek, Smithsonian, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic, and on the cover of the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida. For 23 years he worked as a photographer, writer, and editor for the Gainesville Sun and has been named Photographer of the Year for the Southeastern United States by the National Press Photographers Association. His well-known photograph of alligators at dusk at Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park was selected as the best American photograph in the United Nations Earth Summit photo contest in 1992.