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Elizabeth Kolbert

Author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She has written several books including Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History… (more)
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The Best American Science Writing 2006 (Contributor) 262 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Science Writing 2007 (Contributor) 236 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016 (Contributor) 125 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2019 (Contributor) 123 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017 (Contributor) 107 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Science Writing 2010 (Contributor) 100 copies, 2 reviews
Climate Change: Picturing the Science (Contributor) 72 copies, 2 reviews
Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World (Contributor) 71 copies
The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 (Contributor) 65 copies, 1 review
Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (Contributor) 57 copies, 3 reviews
A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity (Contributor) 46 copies, 2 reviews
The Hidden Life of Ice: Dispatches from a Disappearing World (Foreword, some editions) 26 copies, 1 review
The Best American Political Writing 2002 (Contributor) 25 copies
Lost Fish: Anthologies of the Work of the Comte De Lacepede (Introduction, some editions) 13 copies
Fire Fighters: Stories of Survival from the Front Lines of Firefighting (Contributor) 12 copies
Writers on Earth: New Visions for Our Planet (Foreword, some editions) 2 copies
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Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist and author and visiting fellow at Williams College. She spent her early childhood in the Bronx, New York; her family then relocated to Larchmont, New York, where she remained until 1979.

After graduating from Mamaroneck High School, Kolbert spent four years studying literature at Yale University. In 1983, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Universität Hamburg, in Germany.

Elizabeth Kolbert started working for The New York Times in 1983. Since 1999, she has been a staff-writer for The New Yorker.
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