Grayson

The author describes her real-life adventure when, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encounters a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and her race against time to find the baby's mother, which had been migrating north to feeding grounds in the Bering Sea.

Lynne Cox is the author of Swimming to Antarctica. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in Los Alamitos, California. She received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Cox was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in 1975, inducted into the Swimming Hall of Fame in 2000, and honored with a lifetime achievement award from U.C. Santa Barbara. Her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times Magazine, and European Car Magazine. She lives in Los Alamitos, California.