Betty Jean Craige retired from the University of Georgia in 2011 as University Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.Over four decades Betty Jean wrote numerous books, including the biography of a remarkable human, titled Eugene Odum: Ecosystem Ecologist and Environmentalist, and the shorter biography of a remarkable bird, titled Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot. She curated museum exhibitions of the lithographs of Alvar Suñol at the Georgia Museum of Art and the Albany (Georgia) Museum of Art, and created the documentary Alvar: His Vision and His Art (2006). For two years Betty Jean wrote a column in the Athens Banner-Herald titled "Cosmo Talks," about her parrot Cosmo. Then she turned her attention to fiction and published five Witherston Murder Mysteries-Downstream, Fairfield's Auction, Dam Witherston, Saxxons in Witherston, and Death in Potter's Woods-and a thriller about genome therapy titled Aldo. Death at Zoo Arroyo is her sixth Witherston Murder Mystery.In 2021 she published a collection of essays titled Ruminations on a Parrot Named Cosmo.Betty Jean lives in Athens, Georgia, and enjoys traveling, cooking, entertaining, reading, seeing movies, FaceTiming with friends, and chatting with her beloved Cosmo. See: http: //www.bettyjeancraige.org/
