Author

Books by Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she has covered environmental issues and climate change since 1999. Before The Sixth Extinction, she wrote Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a book on climate change adapted from her magazine reporting. The Sixth Extinction won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2015. Her subsequent book, Under a White Sky, examines human attempts to intervene in natural systems already altered by earlier interventions. Kolbert has received numerous awards for her science journalism and is widely regarded as one of the most important environmental writers working in American long-form nonfiction.