Elizabeth Kolbert
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Elizabeth Kolbert (b.1961) is an American journalist and author. She is best-known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an astute observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker Magazine.
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[edit] Background and education
Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx; her family then relocated to Larchmont, New York, where she remained until 1979.
After graduating high school, Kolbert spent four years studying literature at Yale University. In 1983, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Universitat-Hamburg, in Germany.
[edit] Career
[edit] The New York Times
Kolbert began her career at The New York Times, where she worked as a reporter from 1984 to 1999.
[edit] The New Yorker
Kolbert has been a staff-writer for The New Yorker since 1999. She received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2006.
[edit] Personal
Kolbert resides in Massachusetts with her husband and three sons.
[edit] Books
- The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic, editor (with Francis Spufford) (Bloomsbury, 2007). ISBN 978-1596914438 .
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006). ISBN 978-1596911253 .
- The Prophet of Love : And Other Tales of Power and Deceit, ISBN 1582344639 .
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