Elizabeth Kolbert

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.

Last Update: 2025

The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit
Bloomsbury
New York, 2004

Vor uns die Sintflut. Depeschen von der Klimafront
Berlin Verlag
Berlin, 2006 [Original: 2006]
[Ü: Thorsten Schmidt]

Das sechste Sterben. Wie der Mensch Naturgeschichte schreibt
Suhrkamp Verlag
Berlin, 2015 [Original: 2014]
[Ü: Ulrike Bischoff]

Wir Klimawandler. Wie der Mensch die Natur der Zukunft erschafft
Suhrkamp Verlag
Berlin, 2021 [Original: 2021]
[Ü: Ulrike Bischoff]

H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z
Crown
New York, 2021