2021 TIAA Lecture Series: Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert 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 environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.
Kolbert’s New Yorker pieces have included political profiles, book reviews, comment essays and extensive writing on climate change. Her three-part series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” which describes the varied and disturbing consequences of anthropogenic climate change, won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest, the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award and the 2006 National Academies Communication Award.
Kolbert received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2006 and a Heinz Award in 2010, and won the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. She is the editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009 and the author of The Prophet of Love: And Other Tales of Power and Deceit and Field Notes from a Catastrophe.
Kolbert earned her degree in literature from Yale University and studied at the Universität Hamburg in Germany on a Fulbright scholarship.
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