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Kolbert, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Kolbert, born 1961, gratuated from Yale in literature and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in Hamburg, Germany. She is a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. She is the editor of The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009. Kolbert lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children. For her work she has received several awards, among them two National Magazine Awards, SEAL Enviromental Journalism Award and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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The Sixth Extinction

For the book jacket TOC art director Susanna Dulkinys sat down to express what we considered the lesson Elizabeth Kolbert wants to get across. Each element of the pattern is a life form in all its perfection, but underneath, in acid green color, these characters are distorted and exploded, representing change and destruction.