Mark Derr

Mark Derr is the author of five books, including How the Dog Became the Dog, published in 2011. His articles and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Natural History, Smithsonian, and many other publications. He lives in Miami Beach.

Mark Derr's Titles

Dog's History of America How Our Best Friend Explored, Conquered, and Settled a Continent

A Dog's History of America

In this revelatory history, Mark Derr looks at the ways in which we have used caninesas sled dogs and sheepdogs, hounds and Seeing Eye dogs,...


How the Dog Became the Dog From Wolves to Our Best Friends

How the Dog Became the Dog

How the Dog Became the Dog posits that dog was an evolutionary inevitability in the nature of the wolf and its human soul mate. The natural...