Stephen Pyne is a fire historian, urban farmer, and emeritus professor at Arizona State University, USA.  Among his many fire-themed books are fire histories for America, Canada, Australia, Europe (including Russia), the Earth, and, in press, Mexico.  Recently, he has developed the notion of a Pyrocene, that humanity’s manipulation over fire is creating the fire equivalent of an ice age.  Other books include The Ice (Antarctica); How the Canyon Became Grand; Voyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age of Discovery; and The Great Ages of Discovery: How Western Civilization Learned About a Wider World.

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He graduated from Stanford University (BA) and the University of Texas-Austin (MA, PhD). He spent 15 seasons with the North Rim Longshots, a fire crew at Grand Canyon National Park, and has written fire plans for Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone National Parks.  He lives in Arizona.