[6] Since those early documentary works Prosek's art has become more conceptual, engaging in questions of how we name, systematize and order nature.

[8] As an undergraduate at Yale University he majored in English Literature, and was a member of Manuscript Society.

[9] Of his second book Joe and Me his teacher, the literary critic Harold Bloom, wrote “Prosek is a writer at once artful and natural, an original in literature even as he is in painting.”[10] The art historian Brian T. Allen noted Harold Bloom's fondness for Prosek and his work.

[13] Since the start of the program in 2005, the World Trout Initiative has given $2 million to over 200 fish conservation groups.

[14] Prosek is the author of eleven books for both adults and children,[15] including Ocean Fishes (Rizzoli, 2012) and The Day My Mother Left (Simon & Schuster, 2006).