Elizabeth Kolbert (born 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and as an observer and commentator on the environment for The New Yorker magazine. The Sixth Extinction was a New York Times bestseller and won the Los Angeles Times’ book prize for science and technology. Her book Under a White Sky was one of The Washington Post’s ten best books of the 2021. Kolbert is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and was awarded the BBVA Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication in 2022. Her work has appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Essays. Kolbert served as a member of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science and Security Board from 2017 to 2020. Early life Kolbert spent her early childhood in the Bronx; her family then relocated to Larchmont, 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 Universität Hamburg, in Germany. Career Elizabeth Kolbert started working for 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 to 1991 and wrote the Metro Matters column from 1997 to 1998. Since 1999, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for The Sixth Extinction in 2015. Personal life Kolbert resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband, John Kleiner, and three sons. Recognition 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest 2006 Lannan Literary Fellowship 2006 National Academies Communication Award 16th Annual Heinz Award with special focus on global change, 2010 2010 National Magazine Award for Commentary 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Science Writing 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction 2016 Sam Rose '58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Environmental Activism 2017 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017. Bibliography Books Essays and reporting Introductions, forewords and other contributions Critical studies and reviews of Kolbert's work Field notes from a catastrophe The sixth extinction Under a white sky ——————— Notes References External links