Elizabeth Kolbert
Journalist and environmental author
Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, where she covers the environment and politics. She is the author of Under a White Sky.
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American Born 1961 in The Bronx, United States
About Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert, born in 1961, is an American author and journalist. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, reporting on politics and the environment. She has written six books, including Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015. Under a White Sky made the Washington Post's list of the ten best books of 2021. Kolbert has won the National Magazine Award twice and belongs to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. From 2017 to 2020 she served on the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.