Frank N. Egerton is a professor emeritus of history who is the
most published author on history of ecological sciences. Aside
from numerous articles and reviews, he has published three
books: Hewett Cottrell Watson: Victorian Plant Ecologist and
Evolutionist (Ashgate, 2003); Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel
(University of California Press, 2012); and A Centennial History of
the Ecological Society of America (CRC Press/Taylor and Francis,
2015). This is his first book for the general public. His concern
for gun violence is a citizen’s response to the stalemate between
gun rights advocates and gun control advocates, with gun rights
advocates presently having most influence. He graduated from
Duke University, spent a year studying ecology at North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, then went to University of Wisconsin-
Madison for a Ph.D. in history of science (1967).
