William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include:

• Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
• Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, winner of the Francis Parkman prize in 1984
• Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, winner of the Bancroft Prize in 1992