Erla Zwingle

    Erla Zwingle was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and has been working for magazines, either as a staff writer, editor, or freelance journalist, since 1975. After graduating from the State University of New York at Albany with a B.A. in art history, she moved to New York City, working as managing editor of American Photographer magazine (now American

    Photo), then Senior Editor of Vis-à-Vis (then the United

    Airlines inflight magazine). She was assistant editor at National Geographic magazine for four years, after which she took up freelancing full-time.

    ; National Geographic Magazine;国家地理杂志

    ; Ogallala Aquifer:奥加拉拉地下蓄水层

    ; Alps;阿尔卑斯山脉

    ; Her books include a biography of photographer William

    Albert Allard (New York Graphic Society, 1987) and the

    National Geographic Guidebook to Venice (2001)

    She currently lives in Venice.