David B. Williams is an American freelance writer in Seattle.
Biography Originally raised in Seattle, David B. Williams attended college in Colorado, where he initially studied physics but switched to geology. He received a Bachelor of Arts in geology from Colorado College and worked as a park ranger at Arches National Park in Utah.
Williams returned to Seattle to be a writer of natural history books and occasional urban geology tour guide. He was employed at Seattle's Burke Museum as of 2014. He writes a biweekly newsletter, Street Smart Naturalist: Notes on People, Place, and the PNW. One local bookseller wrote, "When it comes to books about Seattle and its surroundings, there's one must-read writer as far as I'm concerned, and that's David B. Williams."
Williams' interest in urban geology was sparked by the use of stone in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel.
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alternate title The Street-Smart Naturalist: Field Notes from Seattle (Washington State Book Award finalist)
(funded by University of Washington Press Northwest Writers Fund grant)
(March 2026)
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External links GeologyWriter.com. Writing by David B. Williams