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Elizabeth Kolbert

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Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.

Elizabeth Kolbert Books

Life on a Little-Known Planet book cover

Life on a Little-Known Planet

Elizabeth Kolbert
The Island of Dr. Moreau book cover

The Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells
H Is for Hope book cover

H Is for Hope

Elizabeth Kolbert
The Sixth Extinction (young readers adaptation) book cover

The Sixth Extinction (young readers adaptation)

Elizabeth Kolbert
Under a White Sky book cover

Under a White Sky

Elizabeth Kolbert
The Fragile Earth book cover

The Fragile Earth

David Remnick
The Hidden Life of Ice book cover

The Hidden Life of Ice

Alberto Flores d'Arcais
Writers on Earth book cover

Writers on Earth

Write the World
Living in the Anthropocene book cover

Living in the Anthropocene

W. John Kress
Field Notes from a Catastrophe book cover

Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Elizabeth Kolbert
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014 book cover

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014

Deborah Blum
The Sixth Extinction book cover

The Sixth Extinction

Elizabeth Kolbert
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012 book cover

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

Dan Ariely
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