Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Elisabeth Tova Bailey is the author of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (2010, Algonquin Books, ISBN 978-1565126060) which won the 2010 John Burroughs Medal,[1] the Natural History Literature category of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Award (joint award),[2] and the non-fiction category of the 2012 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.[3] In the book she describes her observations of an individual land snail in the species Neohelix albolabris which lived in a terrarium next to her while she was confined to bed through illness.

In her essay A Green World Deep in Winter: The Bedside Terrarium, published in the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Bailey describes how Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, inventor of the Wardian case, had published during the mid 19th century a report on the "Use of Closed Cases in Illness", explaining the benefit of a terrarium to bed-ridden patients in order to "beguile many a weary hour".[4]

References
  1. "John Burroughs Medal Award List". John Burroughs Association. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  2. "Winners of the 2010 National Outdoor Book Awards". National Outdoor Book Awards. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  3. Matson, Christopher (2 August 2012). "Congratulations to the winners and finalists of the 2012 Saroyan Prize for Writing". Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
  4. Bailey, Elisabeth Tova (20 February 2011). "A Green World Deep in Winter: The Bedside Terrarium". The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.


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