Nationality American Name Elizabeth Kolbert Alma mater Yale University Role Journalist | Occupation Journalist and author Education Yale University Spouse(s) John Kleiner | |
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Born 1961 (age 54–55) The Bronx, New York Residence Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States Awards Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Nonfiction Books Field Notes from a Catastrophe, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnat, The Prophet of Love, Volcanoes - Earthquakes + College | ||
The sixth extinction elizabeth kolbert on how humans are causing largest die off since dinosaur age
Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist and 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 environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine. As of March 2017, Kolbert serves as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist's Science and Security Board.
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- The sixth extinction elizabeth kolbert on how humans are causing largest die off since dinosaur age
- Youth and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Awards
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The sixth extinction elizabeth kolbert on how humans are causing largest die off since dinosaur age
Youth and education
Kolbert 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.
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 received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2006. She served as a judge for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2012. She received the Sam Rose and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College in 2016.
Personal life
Kolbert resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband, John Kleiner, and three sons. She appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on February 11, 2014, to discuss her book The Sixth Extinction.