William Souder (born 1949) is an American journalist and non-fiction author.
In 1996, Souder wrote a story about deformed frogs discovered in Henderson, Minnesota which was published on the front page of The Washington Post[1] and covered on television news by Dan Rather.
Souder parlayed the publicity into a deal for his first book, A Plague of Frogs, which was published in 2000.
[2] In 2003, at age 54, Souder decided to write his first biography, a profile of John James Audubon.
[2] His book, Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America, was a finalist for Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.