Vincent Dethier - Other Publications

Other Publications

In addition to his academic publications, Vincent Dethier wrote books on natural history for non-specialists as well as essays, short-stories and children's books, several of which he also illustrated. These include:

Natural history

• To Know a Fly (1962) McGraw-Hill ISBN 0-07-016574-2
• The Ecology of a Summer House (1962) University of Massachusetts Press ISBN 0-87023-422-6
• The World of the Tent Makers (1980) University of Massachusetts Press ISBN 0-87023-300-9
• Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos (1992) Harvard University Press ISBN 0-674-17577-8 (winner of the John Burroughs Medal)

Children's books

• Fairweather Duck (1970) Walker
• Newberry, The Life and Times of a Maine Clam (1981) Down East Books. ISBN 0-89272-085-9

Humor

• Buy Me a Volcano (1972) Vantage Press
• The Ant Heap (1979) Darwin Press ISBN 0-87850-034-0

Philosophical essays

• "Fly, rat and man: The continuing quest for an understanding of behavior" (1981) in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 125
• Ten Masses: Impressions (1988) Alba House ISBN 0-8189-0537-9
• "Sniff, flick, and pulse: An appreciation of interruption" (1987) in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 131

Short stories

• "Haboob" (1960) The Kenyon Review, Vol. 22, No. 2 (anthologized in Gallery of Modern Fiction: Stories From the Kenyon Review, Salem Press, 1966)
• "The Moth and the Primrose" (1980) The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 21, No. 2 (anthologized in The Best American Short Stories of 1981, Penguin Books, 1982)