David G. Haskell

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David George Haskell is a UK- born writer and professor of biology at the University of the South at Sewanee , Tennessee . In addition to scientific essays, he has written essays, poems, newspaper comments, and the books The Hidden Life of the Forest and The Song of the Trees .

For The Hidden Life of the Forest , he received the 2013 National Academies Communication Award in the Best Book category, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize / Non-Fiction . Haskell's second book, The Song of Trees , won the John Burroughs Medal in 2018 for a special work on science.

Haskell received his bachelor's degree in zoology from Oxford University in 1990 and his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Cornell University in 1996 . In 2014 he was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship by the American John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

Fonts

  • The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature , Viking Press / Penguin Random House, New York 2012.
  • The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors , Viking Press / Penguin Random House, New York 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David G. Haskell: Nature's Case for Same-Sex Marriage. In: The New York Times , March 29, 2013, accessed May 8, 2018.
  2. ^ Academies Announce 2013 Communication Award Winners. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, September 5, 2013, accessed May 8, 2018.
  3. ↑ 2013 Pulitzer Prizes. The Pulitzer Prizes, accessed May 8, 2018.
  4. ↑ David Haskell wins 2018 Burroughs Medal. John Burroughs Association, accessed May 8, 2018.
  5. ^ Faculty & Staff - David George Haskell. Retrieved January 9, 2019 .
  6. ↑ David Haskell. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, accessed May 8, 2018.

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SURNAME Haskell, David G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haskell, David George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British biologist, author and professor of biology at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century