Charles Alan Long

Charles Alan Long is an American author and biology professor best known in academic circles for his work in mammalogy and natural history. Publicly available records connect him with the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, where he served as a Professor Emeritus of Biology, taught mammalogy, helped build the university's natural history museum, and lent his name to the school's mammalogy collection.

As a writer, Long appears to have moved across very different kinds of books. He is associated with scientific work including The Wild Mammals of Wisconsin, and with later literary work such as Poems of Charles Alan Long: My Closet Life of Poetry [1957–2017], a collection described by booksellers as reflecting decades of scholarship, teaching, travel, and personal reflection.

That mix of science and literature gives his author profile an unusual shape: part field naturalist, part teacher, part poet. Reliable biographical detail available online is fairly limited, so many personal facts beyond his professional career are not easy to confirm from accessible sources.