Virginia Marie Peterson

Virginia Marie Peterson was the wife of Roger Tory Peterson, founder of the popular Peterson Field Guide series, and contirbutor to many books in that series They wed in 1976, both having been previously married and divorced, she once and him twice. At the time of their marriage, Roger Tory Peterson was a well known naturalist, artist and the author of fourteen books including popular field guides to birds and many other taxonomic groups, including trees, flowering plants, ferns, mammals and insects.

Virginia Peterson contributed the first set of species range maps to the updated fifth edition of ''A Field Guide to the Birds''. The first guide in the popular Peterson Field Guide series was published in 1934. The introduction of the range maps was reflected in the copyright of this and the updated field guide in the series for western birds, with her range maps, being expanded to include Virginia Peterson. Provided by Wikipedia