The Home Place Drew Lanham
Joseph Drew Lanham is an American author, poet and wildlife biologist.[1] Raised in Edgefield, South Carolina, Lanham studied zoology and ecology at Clemson University, where he earned a PhD in 1997 and where he currently holds an endowed chair as an Alumni Distinguished Professor.[2] He is a board member of several conservation organizations, including the South Carolina Wildlife Federation, Audubon South Carolina, the Aldo Leopold Foundation, BirdNote, and the American Birding Association, and an advisory board member for the North American Association of Environmental Education.[3] In 2019 he was awarded the National Audubon Society's Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership, recognizing 'individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to the environment'.[4][5]
Drew Lanham’s The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by Amy Wright. January 30, 2017 No Comments “There are still priceless places,” J. Drew Lanham says, “where nature hangs on by tooth, talon, and tendril.”.
In 2013, Lanham wrote a piece for Orion Magazine titled '9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher',[6][7] drawing attention to the lack of black birders and diversity in general among naturalists. The short piece inspired producer Ari Daniel and videographer Amanda Kowalski to create a short film with the same title for BirdNote[8][9] which quickly went viral on social media.[1] In 2016 he wrote 'Birding While Black.'[10] In 2017 he published the award-winning memoir The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature.[11] The book was listed in The Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the 11 best scholarly books of the 2010s, chosen by Anna Tsing.[12] Lanham features in episode 7 of the 2019 TV series Birds of North America, produced by Topic and hosted by Jason Ward.[13][14] In 2020, the podcast This is Love spoke with Drew Lanham for their episode, 'Prairie Warbler.'[15] In December 2020, he received the E.O.Wilson Biodiversity Award for Outstanding Science, Advocacy.[16]
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- Drew Lanham's The Home Place is a stunning read, a masterpiece, a soft rebellion that touches the deepest of our instincts.' ― Marine Ornithology “An extraordinary and trailblazing perspective on nature and race, told by a southern black man who became a natural scientist and a bird watcher.
- Drew Lanham is a conservation ornithologist and endowed faculty at Clemson University, where his work focuses on the intersections among race, place, and nature. He is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature and Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts.
- Our first book is ornithologist Dr. Drew Lanham’s “The Home Place,” which was voted a “Best Scholarly Book of the Decade” by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Lanham writes of his.
- Reviewed by B.J. Hollars In his debut memoir, self-described “eco-addict” J. Drew Lanham explores the connection between trees and family trees, birds and brethren, and most importantly of all, the place where mother nature and human nature meet.

- ^ abLong, Kat (2016-09-09). 'Exploring Ties Between Nature, History, and Race'. National Geographic. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^'Employee Profiles | College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences | Clemson University, South Carolina'. www.clemson.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^'Dr. J. Drew Lanham'. Audubon. 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^'Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership'. Audubon. 2015-01-09. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^'Clemson professor J. Drew Lanham to be honored by National Audubon Society'. Newsstand | Clemson University News and Stories, South Carolina. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^Lanham, J. Drew (December 2013). '9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher'. Orion Magazine. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^'Rules for the black birdwatcher'. The Guardian. 2015-03-04. ISSN0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^BirdNote (2015-02-28), Rules for the Black Birdwatcher - With Drew Lanham, retrieved 2019-04-23
- ^'Bird-Watching While Black: A Wildlife Ecologist Shares His Tips', National Geographic, retrieved 2019-04-23
- ^'Birding While Black'. Literary Hub. 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew) (2017-06-13). The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature (First paperback ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota. ISBN978-1571313508. OCLC959536553.
- ^'The Best Scholarly Books of the Decade'. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2020-04-14. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ^'Drew Lanham: Hope Is the Thing With Feathers'. Topic. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^Becker, Rachel (2019-04-03). 'Birding gets new life in this YouTube nature series'. The Verge. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^'Prairie Warbler'. This is Love. May 13, 2020.
- ^https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/clemson-ornithologist-named-2020-eo-wilson-biodiversity-award-recipient-2020-12-16/?fbclid=IwAR3i-YIfAkvYMtHbJAkvb5AFOJkhzANl9kd2fuQ-2I6NPVTkmGjpzMRLH3M
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“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.” By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South—and in America today.
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