Biography
Heather Pringle is one of North America's foremost popular writers on the subject of archaeology. In her career as a journalist, she has written for magazines as diverse as Science, Stern, Geo, New Scientist, National Geographic, Islands, Texas Monthly, and Canadian Geographic.
Her articles have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Science Journalism Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002. In addition, her work appeared in the 2007 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Richard Preston and published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Heather Pringle was born in 1952 in Edmonton, Canada, the daughter of a professional hockey player and a passionate Montreal Canadians fan. She studied history and literature at the universities of Alberta and British Columbia, then worked as a museum researcher and book editor.
Moving to British Columbia in 1980, she began writing on subjects as diverse as the return of the Sun dance in the Canadian west and the travails of dinosaur hunters in Mongolia. Over her long writing career, she has traveled extensively, roaming the remote islands of Tonga, journeying through the Peruvian backcountry at the height of the civil war, wandering the dark passageways of recently excavated Roman villas at Pompeii, and flying in a F-18 fighter jet, briefly taking the controls to fly loops and barrel rolls.
She currently lives in British Columbia with her husband Geoff.