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6 unusual facts about Robert Michael Pyle


Brian Boyd

In the 1990s Boyd edited Nabokov’s English-language fiction and memoirs for the Library of America (3 vols., 1996) and, with lepidopterist Robert Michael Pyle, Nabokov's writings on butterflies (Nabokov's Butterflies, 2000).

Grays River Covered Bridge

Author, Granger The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, and Grays River resident Robert Michael Pyle served as Master of Ceremonies for the event.

Nabokov's Butterflies

Nabokov’s Butterflies is a book edited and annotated by Brian Boyd and Robert Michael Pyle that examines and presents Vladimir Nabokov’s passion for butterflies in his literary presentation.

Robert Michael Pyle

The following year his naturalist travel journal Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage traced his discovery of previously unnoticed monarch migration patterns.

1987: John BurroughsMedal for Distinguished Nature Writing, Wintergreen

Robert Michael Pyle (born July 19, 1947 in Denver, Colorado) is a lepidopterist and author living in Grays River, Washington who has published twelve books and hundreds of papers, essays, stories and poems.



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