Biography
Jack Rudloe operates the popular Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories, Inc. in Panacea, Florida,(www.gulfspecimen.org) a unique environmental education center and public aquarium that supplies marine organisms to schools and research laboratories. The lab had its roots with John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, and from the later 1950's to the early 1960's they corresponded. Mr. Rudloe has been featured in several major television documentaries on PBS and was interviewed on the four times on the NBC Today Show, Good Morning America, Fox Network and National Public Radio. In 1963-1964 he participated in International Indian Ocean Expedition, and has made collecting trips for the New York Aquarium (capturing the Giant Sea Roach from the Gulf depths and the Suriname Toadfish) and the National Cancer Institute and has written six highly acclaimed and widely reviewed non-fiction books on the sea. His novel "Potluck", a story of shrimping and smuggling is regarded as a Florida panhandle classic. Together, with his wife Anne, they have published articles in National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Natural History, Audubon, and other magazines. Their most recent books are Chicken Wars (a novel about a divinely inspired rooster that leads a revolution and overthrows the chicken factory) and Shrimp, the Endless Quest for Pink Gold.