Michael E. Dorcas is a professor of biology at Davidson College. He is the author of six previous books including, with coauthor Whit Gibbons,Snakes of the SoutheastandFrogs and Toads of the Southeast(both Georgia). John D. Willson is a postdoctoral research associate at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. He has published extenshy;sively on snake ecology and serves as a section editor for Snake Natural History notes in the journalHerpetological Review.
Mike Dorcas is an associate professor of biology at Davidson College and the author of several books on amphibians and reptiles. Whit Gibbons is a professor emeritus of ecology at the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and the author, coauthor, and coeditor of several books, most recently Turtles: The Animal Answer Guide, also published by Johns Hopkins. Gibbons and Dorcas coauthored three other books, Snakes of the Southeast, Frogs and Toads of the Southeast, and North American Watersnakes.