Stephen J. Pyne

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializing in the history of ecology, the history of exploration, and the history of fire. Pyne received his bachelor's degree at Stanford University after graduating from Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. He later attained his master's and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988. He has... more

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializing in the history of ecology, the history of exploration, and the history of fire. Pyne received his bachelor's degree at Stanford University after graduating from Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. He later attained his master's and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Texas at Austin. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1988. He has also received a Fulbright Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships. He spent fifteen seasons as a wildland firefighter at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park between 1967 and 1981. Since the publication of his second book, Fire in America in 1982, he has been known as one of the world's foremost experts on the environmental history of fire. Stephen J. Pyne has authored the following books: Wildfire less