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Stanley Paul Young

1889–1969

Best known for writing about wolves and other wildlife of the American West, this biologist and government predator-control specialist turned decades of field experience into vivid natural history books. His work helped shape how many readers first encountered the lives of North American wolves, coyotes, and cougars.

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About the author

Born in 1889, Stanley Paul Young was an American biologist and wildlife writer whose career was closely tied to the U.S. Biological Survey and later wildlife work in the American West. He became especially associated with studies of predators such as wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions, drawing on firsthand experience from years in the field.

Young wrote and co-wrote books that brought both scientific knowledge and frontier experience to general readers. Among the works linked to him is The Wolves of North America, and his writing is remembered for giving readers a detailed look at large carnivores at a time when they were often poorly understood.

He died in 1969. Reliable biographical information available online is fairly limited, but the sources found consistently present him as an important early American wildlife biologist whose published work left a lasting mark on wolf and predator studies.