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] The Forest Unseen has been translated into nine languages and was winner of the 2016 Dapeng Nature Book Award in China. Haskell's second book, The Songs of Trees, was published in April 2017 by Viking.

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]

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  1. ↑ Haskell, David George (March 29, 2013). "Nature's Case for Same-Sex Marriage". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Academies Announce 2013 Communication Award Winners". The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. September 5, 2013.
  3. ↑ "2013 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ "2013 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award". PEN America. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Reed Environmental Writing Award". Southern Environmental Law Center. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Academics • Biology • Faculty & Staff: David George Haskell". The University of the South. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  7. ↑ "David Haskell named Tennessee’s top professor". Sewanee Today. Sewanee: The University of the South. November 18, 2009.
  8. ↑ "David Haskell". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  9. ↑ "The Songs of Trees". dghaskell.com. Retrieved December 5, 2016.


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