An Oakland fireman, Unger first joined the Authors Dinner in 2005 when his debut book Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman was published. Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye sees his family decamp to Churchill, Manitoba—Polar Bear Capital of the World—where natives, conservationists, hunters, scientists, and the most dangerous predators on the planet converge. Unger has been a peregrine falcon watcher, an elephant seal tagger, a municipal dump laborer, a muffin delivery driver, and is now an Oakland Fire Department firefighter and paramedic. He lives in Oakland. zacunger.com
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