Patrick Dean

About The Author

Patrick Dean writes on the outdoors and the environment. He has worked as a teacher, a political media director, and is presently the executive director of a rail-trail nonprofit. An avid trail-runner, paddler, and mountain-biker, he lives with his wife and dogs on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, and is the author of A Window To Heaven, about the summit of Denali, also available from Pegasus Books. 

Books by Patrick Dean

Nature's Messenger

Mark Catesby and His Adventures in a New World

By Patrick Dean
A dynamic and fresh exploration of the naturalist Mark Catesby—who predated John James Audubon by nearly a century— and his influence on how we understand American wildlife.
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A Window to Heaven

The Daring First Ascent of Denali: America's Wildest Peak

By Patrick Dean
The captivating and heroic story of Hudson Stuck—an Episcopal priest—and his team's history-making summit of Denali.
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