Helen Macdonald's 'H is for Hawk' wins British non-fiction prize

By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - British author Helen Macdonald's book "H is for Hawk" telling the poignant story of how she trained a falcon as a way to deal with the grief of her father's sudden death won the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014 on Tuesday. Macdonald, a writer, poet, historian and affiliated history lecturer at Cambridge University, has said that training the predatory goshawk she called Mabel introduced her to "a very strange world" and that she found herself becoming "less and less human" the more she learned about the bird's habits. ... Read More http://ift.tt/10jIzOP