Jennifer Ackerman
American science and nature writer
Jennifer Ackerman is an American author who writes about science and nature, with a focus on birds. She wrote the New York Times bestseller The Genius of Birds.
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American Born 1959
About Jennifer Ackerman
Jennifer Ackerman is an American science and nature writer. She has written eight books, which have been published in more than twenty languages, and her articles have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic and The New York Times. The Genius of Birds was a New York Times bestseller in 2017. It argues that birds are far more intelligent than the "bird brained" label suggests. She followed it in 2020 with The Bird Way. Ackerman worked at National Geographic for nine years before leaving to write freelance. Her earlier books cover health topics, including Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream and Ah-Choo, a study of the common cold. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction.