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Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has covered politics and the environment.
She is the author of six books, including The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History–a New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner–and Under a White Sky, which was one of The Washington Post's ten best books of 2021.
Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays. She served as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board from 2017 to 2020.
Kolbert has traveled across the globe, visiting scientists and researchers to discuss global warming and climate change. Her work has taken her to Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Australia, and Iceland in the discovery of science and the impacts of human life to the planet.
Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx. Her family then relocated to Larchmont, where she remained until 1979.
Kolbert’s grandfather was a refugee from Nazi Germany. Kolbert recounts that through his life, he had been a fan of author Karl May’s writing, specifically on the West. Later, when he had immigrated to the US, Kolbert’s grandfather would take Kolbert’s mother and
siblings out West. Kolbert’s mother continued this tradition with her kids. “I thought I, too, should go have adventures out West.”
Kolbert’s father, was an eye doctor and her mother, Marlene Kolbert, was a stay-at-home mom. Although she stayed active within their community, participating on the school board and their local politics.
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961) is an American author and journalist. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker, where she has covered politics and the environment.
She is the author of six books, including The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History–a New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner–and Under a White Sky, which was one of The Washington Post's ten best books of 2021.
Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays. She served as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board from 2017 to 2020.
Kolbert has traveled across the globe, visiting scientists and researchers to discuss global warming and climate change. Her work has taken her to Alaska, Hawaii, Greenland, Australia, and Iceland in the discovery of science and the impacts of human life to the planet.
Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx. Her family then relocated to Larchmont, where she remained until 1979.
Kolbert’s grandfather was a refugee from Nazi Germany. Kolbert recounts that through his life, he had been a fan of author Karl May’s writing, specifically on the West. Later, when he had immigrated to the US, Kolbert’s grandfather would take Kolbert’s mother and
siblings out West. Kolbert’s mother continued this tradition with her kids. “I thought I, too, should go have adventures out West.”
Kolbert’s father, was an eye doctor and her mother, Marlene Kolbert, was a stay-at-home mom. Although she stayed active within their community, participating on the school board and their local politics.
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