Terry Tempest Williams

Born in Mormon family, raised in Utah, Terry Tempest Williams is rooted in her religion and the wilderness. These two elements combine to form her identity, but their coexistence does not always live in harmony. In 1983, Great Salt Lake began swallowing Williams' beloved bird sanctuary. At the same time, her mother learned that she was suffering from cancer. This crucial moment has become a major turning point in her life. It was impossible to stop the steady rise of the lake, but Williams could not leave her mother on this earth.

About Terry Tempest Williams (born September 8, 1955) is an American writer, environmental activist, activist. Williams' work is rooted in the western part of the United States of America and is greatly affected by the dry landscape of Jewish and Mormon culture. Her work is exploring the relationship between culture and nature, from ecological protection and protection of wilderness to women's health. Williams protested nuclear tests in the Nevada desert through civil disobedience from 1987 to 1992 and protested women's health problems with code pink against the Iraq war in Washington, DC in March 2003. She was a guest at the White House, camped in remote areas of Utah and Alaska, and served as a "barefoot artist" in Rwanda.

Terry Tempest Williams is the author of 'Shelter: The unnatural history of family and place' including this biographical article. Williams uses natural themes throughout the writing process to connect with people. In 'Single Female Family', she uses her own statistics and facts and details of her family's breast cancer history to see how events in the environment occur over a long period, often unexpected events I will explore. She first introduced her cancer history. This was also true for her Mormon family who statistically had a low incidence of cancer worldwide and only one of whom had cancer suffered before 1960 for her personal family history.