Norm Quinn has been Park Management Biologist in Algonquin Park, Ontario, since 1984. He received his B.Sc. in wildlife management from the University of Guelph in 1976 and his M.Sc. in wildlife biology from the University of New Brunswick in 1978. Norm has had an extraordinarily varied career in fish and wildlife research and management, having worked with everything from minnows to moose. He has published widely in the popular and scientific literature and has travelled extensively, having lived for lengthy periods in both Israel and Australia.

Norm Quinn lives in Bancroft, Ontario, with his wife Nancy, son Robert, and daughter Laura.