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Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and as an observer and commentator on the environment for The New Yorker magazine. The Sixth Extinction was a New York Times bestseller and won the Los Angeles Times’ book prize for science and technology. Her book Under a White Sky was one of the Washington Post’s ten best books of the 2021. Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and was awarded the BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication in 2022. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays. Kolbert served as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board from 2017 to 2020. Early life Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx; her family then relocated to Larchmont, 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 Universität Hamburg, in Germany. Career Elizabeth Kolbert started working for The New York Times as a stringer in Germany in 1983. In 1985 she went to work for the Metro desk. Kolbert served as the Times' Albany bureau chief from 1988 to 1991 and wrote the Metro Matters column from 1997 to 1998. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for The Sixth Extinction in 2015. Personal life Kolbert resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband, John Kleiner, and three sons. Recognition 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship 2006 National Academies Communication Award 16th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on global change, 2010 2010 National Magazine Award for Commentary 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Science Writing 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2016 Sam Rose '58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Environmental Activism 2017 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017.Bibliography Books Kolbert, Elizabeth (2004). The prophet of love : and other tales of power and deceit. New York: Bloomsbury. — (2006). Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change. New York: Bloomsbury. Kolbert, Elizabeth & Francis Spufford, eds. (2007). The ends of the Earth : an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Bloomsbury. Kolbert, Elizabeth, ed. (2009). The best American science and nature writing 2009. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. — (2014). The sixth extinction : an unnatural history. — (2021). Under a White Sky. Penguin Random House.Essays and reporting Kolbert, Elizabeth (October 14–21, 2002). "The Lost Mariner". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 78, no. xx. pp. 206–211. — (November 13, 2006). "The Darkening Sea". Annuls of Science. The New Yorker. — (March 29, 2010). "Batless". Postcard from Vermont. The New Yorker. Vol. 86, no. 6. pp. 42–43. — (March 11, 2013). "Up all night : the science of sleeplessness". Modern Life. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 4. pp. 24–27. — (October 21, 2013). "Head count : fertilizer, fertility, and the clashes over population growth". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 33. pp. 96–99. — (December 16, 2013). "The lost world : the mastodon's molars". Annals of Extinction. Part One. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 41. pp. 28–38. — (December 23–30, 2013). "the lost world: fossils of the future". Annals of Extinction. Part Two. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 42. pp. 48–56. — (March 3, 2014). "Big score : when Mom takes the SAT's". American Chronicles. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 2. pp. 38–41. — (April 14, 2014). "Rough forecasts". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 8. pp. 21–22. — (July 28, 2014). "Stone soup". Annals of Alimentation. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 21. pp. 26–29. — (August 25, 2014). "Bug bed". The Talk of the Town. Field Studies. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 24. p. 20. — (December 22–29, 2014). "The big kill : New Zealand's crusade to rid itself of mammals". Annals of Extermination. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 41. pp. 120–126, 128–129. — (January 12, 2015). "Civic duty". The Talk of the Town. Postcard from Rome. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 43. pp. 20, 22. — (February 2, 2015). "Such a Stoic : how Seneca became Ancient Rome's philosopher-fixer". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 90, no. 46. pp. 66–69. — (February 16, 2015). "The last trial : a great-grandmother, Auschwitz, and the arc of justice". Letter from Berlin. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 1. pp. 24–30. — (December 7, 2015). "Unsafe climates". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 91, no. 39. pp. 23–24. — (August 8–15, 2016). "Swords, sandals". The Talk of the Town. The Pictures. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 24. pp. 21–22. — (October 24, 2016). "Greenland Is Melting". Letter from Greenland. The New Yorker. — (December 19–26, 2016). "Rage against the machine : will robots take your job?". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 92, no. 42. pp. 114–118. — (February 27, 2017). "That's what you think : why reason and evidence won't change our minds". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 2. pp. 66–71. — (June 19, 2017). "Incident". The Talk of the Town. Art's Sake Dept. The New Yorker. Vol. 93, no. 17. p. 23. — (May 20, 2019). "Last chances". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 13. pp. 23–24. — (May 20, 2019). "The ice stupas : artificial glaciers at the edge of the Himalayas". Portfolio. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 13. Photographs by Vasantha Yogananthan. pp. 54–67. — (January 13, 2020). "Don't wait". The Talk of the Town. Comment. The New Yorker. Vol. 95, no. 44. pp. 13–14. — (July 27, 2020). "The catastrophist : NASA's climate expert delivers the news no wants to know". Profiles. June 29, 2009. The New Yorker. Vol. 96, no. 21. pp. 24–29. — (October 12, 2020). "This close : the day the Cuban missile crisis almost went nuclear". The New Yorker. pp. 70–73.Introductions, forewords and other contributions Van Gelder, Gordon, ed. (2011). Welcome to the greenhouse : new science fiction on climate change. Preface by Elizabeth Kolbert. New York: OR Books.Critical studies and reviews of Kolbert's work Field notes from a catastropheGosnell, Mariana (March 16, 2006). "In epoch of man, Earth takes a beating". The New York Times.The sixth extinctionGore, Al (February 10, 2014). "Without a trace". Book Review. The New York Times.Under a white sk.... Discover the Elizabeth Kolbert popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Elizabeth Kolbert books.
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Brant
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Explicit Instruction
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Frankenstein
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Seduction Island
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Kingdoms of Sand: Books 1-3
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The Science of Getting Rich
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Mr. Mayfair
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Fighter's Frenemy
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Cruel Captor
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iPhone User Guide
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Dream Psychology
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Holy Bible
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The Art of War
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Fighter's Best Friend
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The Art of Logical Thinking
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated, Inline Footnotes)
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Mistletoe Madness: A Sweet Small Town Christmas Romance (Santa's Secret Helpers, Book 2)
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Words of Wisdom - 100 Inspirational Quotations
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The Three Little Pigs
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Relentless
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Undone (A Cora Shields Suspense Thriller—Book 1)
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Rafe
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What I Like About You
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Dead Before Dinner
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Hunting Season
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Emotional Intelligence Mastery: A Practical Guide to Improving Your EQ
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Complicate Me: Reid & Sienna #1
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar Library Books 1.1
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