Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, one of the New York Times Book Review’s 10 best books of the year, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and shortlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

She is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, from which the book was adapted, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She is also a recipient of a Heinz Award and Guggenheim Fellowship. Kolbert lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.