Elizabeth Kolbert is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has covered politics and the environment.
Occupation
journalist, writer, environmentalist, reporter
Citizenship
United States
Born
July 6, 1961
Website
http://elizabethkolbert.com
Overview
Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 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 2021. Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and in 2022 was awarded the BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication.
Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays.
