David G. Haskell

David George Haskell is a British-born American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee. In addition to scientific papers, he has written essays, poems, op-eds,[1] and the book The Forest Unseen, winner of the 2013 National Academies Communication Award for Best Book,[2] finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction,[3] runner-up for the 2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award,[4] winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, and the 2013 Reed Environmental Writing Award. [5]

Haskell received his B.A. in zoology from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Cornell University.[6] In 2009 he was named the Carnegie-CASE Professor of the Year in Tennessee.[7] He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014.[8] Along with his wife, Haskell lives at Cudzoo Farm,[9] a small dairy-goat farm located on the Cumberland Plateau in Sewanee, TN.


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  1. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/30/opinion/natures-case-for-same-sex-marriage.html
  2. ↑ http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=09052013A
  3. ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2013-General-Nonfiction
  4. ↑ https://www.pen.org/literature/2013-pene-o-wilson-literary-science-writing-award
  5. ↑ http://www.southernenvironment.org/projects/reed-environmental-writing-award
  6. ↑ http://biology.sewanee.edu/facstaff/haskell
  7. ↑ http://news.sewanee.edu/people/2009/11/18/david-haskell-named-tennessees-top-professor
  8. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17595-david-haskell
  9. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/23/science/david-haskell-finds-biology-zen-in-a-patch-of-nature.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
  10. ↑ http://edelweiss.abovethetreeline.com/ProductDetailPage.aspx?sequence=1&group=search&keywords=forest+unseen&searchContext=&searchOrgID=&searchCatalogID=&searchMailingID=&sku=067002337X