
"Up all night : the science of sleeplessness".

The sixth extinction : an unnatural history. The best American science and nature writing 2009. The ends of the Earth : an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic. Kolbert, Elizabeth & Francis Spufford, eds.Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change. The prophet of love : and other tales of power and deceit. This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items. Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017.2017 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award.2016 Sam Rose '58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Environmental Activism.2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Science Writing.2010 National Magazine Award for Commentary.


Her brother, Dan Kolbert of Portland, Maine, is a well-known builder and author.Įlizabeth Kolbert started working for The New York Times as a stringer in Germany in 1983. In 1983, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Universität Hamburg, in Germany. Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx her family then relocated to Larchmont, where she remained until 1979.Īfter graduating from Mamaroneck High School, Kolbert spent four years studying literature at Yale University. Kolbert served as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board from 2017 to 2020. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays. Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and was awarded the BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication in 2022. Her book Under a White Sky was one of The Washington Post’s ten best books of 2021. The Sixth Extinction was a New York Times bestseller and won the Los Angeles Times’ book prize for science and technology. 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. Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.
