Elizabeth Kolbert

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.