Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is an American author and journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999, covering politics and the environment. She is best known for The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and for Under a White Sky, which the Washington Post named one of its ten best books of 2021. She is also a two-time National Magazine Award winner. Her reporting has taken her to Alaska, Greenland, and Iceland to meet scientists studying global warming.