Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 1, 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 Larchmont , where she attended Mamaroneck High School. While studying literature at Yale University , she received a Fulbright scholarship , with which she studied at the University of Hamburg in 1983 . In Germany she contributed to articles in the New York Times , so that in 1985, after completing her studies, she was able to successfully apply for a position as a beginner in the newspaper's local editorial team. From 1992 she was a political reporter for the New York Times and in 1999 moved to the New Yorker as an editor .
Al Gore reviewed her 2014 book The Sixth Extinction in the New York Times . With the title, Kolbert ties in with the five major mass extinctions that science has identified so far . In 2015 the book was named Knowledge Book of the Year .
Fonts
- The prophet of love: and other tales of power and deceit . New York, Bloomsbury. 2004
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Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change . New York: Bloomsbury Pub., 2006
- Before us the flood. Telegrams from the climate front . From the American by Thorsten Schmidt . Berlin publishing house, Berlin
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The sixth extinction: an unnatural history . New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014
- The sixth dying. How man writes natural history . Translation by Ulrike Bischoff. Berlin, Suhrkamp, 2015 ISBN 978-3-518-42481-0 .
- The Last Trial - A great-grandmother, Auschwitz, and the arc of justice , in: The New Yorker , February 16, 2015
Awards
- 2006: National Magazine Award in the category Public Interest ( of public interest ) for their documentary series The Climate of Man on local effects of global warming . In an expanded form, the series was published as a book under the title Field Notes from a Catastrophe .
- 2010: Heinz Award .
- 2015: Pulitzer Prize for The Sixth Extinction .
Web links
- Literature by and about Elizabeth Kolbert in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Elizabeth Kolbert in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Elizabeth Kolbert at perlentaucher.de
- Elizabeth Kolbert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Elizabeth Kolbert , website
- Directory of Elizabeth Kolbert's articles at Yale
- Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker
- Review of the book "The sixth death" on Spektrum.de by Eckart Löhr
Individual evidence
- ^ Al Gore: Mass extinction, by our own hand , International New York Times, February 15, 2014, p. 22
- ↑ magazine.org: American Society of Magazine Editors: Winners & Finalists (last accessed September 16, 2014)
- ↑ Elizabeth Kolbert , at Heinz Awards
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kolbert, Elizabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx |