Author Robert W. Dye, a photography archivist at Elvis Presley's Graceland, is a lifelong Memphian and historian. Pulling from public and private research material, Dye has compiled the first extensive history of the Memphis Zoo. This is Dye's fifth Arcadia Publishing title; he previously authored Shelby County, Bartlett, and The Mid-South Fair (in the Images of America series), as well as Memphis (in the Then and Now series).