born in 1961 in New York, USA, has written for The New Yorker since 1999and worked as a reporter for the paper prior to that. She studied literature at Yale University and was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hamburg. From 2012 to 2015, she held the Class of 1946 Environmental Fellowship at Williams College. Kolbert is the author or co-editor of several books on science, climate, and the environment, including »The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History« (2014), which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction; »Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future« (2021); and »Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change« (2006). She has also edited several volumes on the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Elizabeth Kolbert’s work has received numerous honors, including the BBVA Foundation Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication, the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2021, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In fall 2025, Elizabeth Kolbert will be a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin.
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