Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert (* 1961 in Bronx, New York City ) is an American journalist and author of articles and books on environmental issues.

Life

Elizabeth Kolbert grew up in the Bronx and then in Larchmont, where she attended Mamaroneck High School. During the study of literature at Yale University, she received a Fulbright scholarship, with whom she studied at the University of Hamburg in 1983. In Germany, it provided inputs for the article in the New York Times, so that they in 1985 after completing their studies successfully apply for a job as a beginner in the local section of the newspaper. From 1992 she was a political reporter for the NYT and in 1999 as an editor for the New Yorker.

Your reportage series The Climate of Man won over local impact of global warming in 2005 a " National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism " and was by her extended as a book under the title of Field Notes from a Catastrophe published.

Al Gore peer reviewed her 2014 book, The Sixth Extinction in the NYT. With the title Kolbert builds on the science of the previously determined mass extinction.

Kolbert in 2006 received a " Lannan Literary Fellowship " and in 2010 the " Heinz Award".

Writings

• The sixth extinction: an unnatural history. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014
• Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change. New York: Bloomsbury Pub, 2006. Before the Flood. Dispatches from the climate front. From the American Thorsten Schmidt. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006