FSU biologist Walter Tschinkel wrote a book about his life’s passion, fire ants. And now it’s been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. When is the movie coming out?
His 723-page tome “The Fire Ants,” published last spring, is now a nonfiction nominee for the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzers are awarded in late May, about a month after winners are announced.”Overjoyed!” Timothy Moerland chairman of FSU’s Department of Biological Science, said of the Pulitzer nod for his colleague. “Walter has an exceptional ability to see the art that’s present in all science.”
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Why spend a lifetime with the fire ant, and labor seven years over the book?
“There is a usefulness, but it’s not what you think,” Tschinkel said in an interview this week. “It’s to expand the human vision and horizons of understanding. We have here a world that is relatively invisible that I make visible. It’s an intellectual contribution, not a practical one.”
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“Science is not just a cold, logical process. It involves a lot of vision, passion, creativity – and a lot of fun,” Tschinkel said.
