Elizabeth Kolbert
author of four books; best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; observer and commentator on environmentalism for the New Yorker magazine; won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Public Interest, the National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing