Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert grew up in the Bronx, and studied English at Yale University. She won a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship, and studied at the University of Hamburg, in Germany. While in Germany, she began working for the New York Times, and eventually became a columnist for the newspaper. In 1999, Kolbert became a staff writer for the New Yorker, where she has written many popular articles about science and technology. Kolbert’s most successful book, both critically and financially, was The Sixth Extinction, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2014.