Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.^[1]

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 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 1988-1991, and wrote the Metro Matters column from 1997-1998.

Since 1999, she has been a staff-writer for The New Yorker.^[1]

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.^[2]

Personal life

Kolbert resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts with her husband, John Kleiner, and three sons.^[3]

Bibliography

Books

• The Prophet of Love : And Other Tales of Power and Deceit, ISBN 1-58234-463-9.
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006). ISBN 978-1-59691-125-3.
• The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic, editor (with Francis Spufford) (Bloomsbury, 2007). ISBN 978-1-59691-443-8.
• Editor, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009^[4] ISBN 978-0-54700-259-0.
• Preface to anthology Welcome to the Greenhouse: Science Fiction on Climate Change (OR Books, 2011).
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, ISBN 978-0-8050-9299-8. (February 11, 2014) ^[5]

Articles

• Kolbert, Elizabeth, "Batless", The New Yorker; March 29, 2010, pp 42–43. On White nose syndrome.

Awards

• 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award^[6]
• 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest^[7]
• 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship^[8]
• 2006 National Academies Communication Award^[9]
• 16th Annual Heinz Awards (with special focus on global change), 2010^[10]
• 2010 National Magazine Award for Commentary^[11]
• 2010 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Science Writing ^[12]

References

External links

• Elizabeth Kolbert's Website
• "An Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert", Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) 2006