William Beebe
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American naturalist and explorer (1877–1962)
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William Beebe was an author and naturalist born in 1877 and died in 1962. He is the subject of a Commons category and has a Creator page on the same platform. His written works include *Pheasants*, *Man against nature*, *Edge of the jungle*, *From sea to mountain-top in Malaysia*, and *Bi-metsulot yam*. Open Library lists 76 works by him, while Crossref records five works.
Beebe is associated with a Last.fm profile that has one listener and one playcount. A MusicBrainz entry classifies the name as a Group. His writings are referenced by 1,413 other encyclopedia articles. He is quoted as saying, "To be a Naturalist is better than to be a King," and "The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living."
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New York City
- Place of death
- Arima
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- John Burroughs Medal
- Field of work
- literature
- Image
- BeebeGuiana.png
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- William Beebe
- Commons category
- William Beebe
- date of death
- 1962-06-04
- Commons Creator page
- William Beebe
- date of birth
- 1877-07-29
- birth name
- Charles William Beebe
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
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