Skip to content
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert — book cover

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction · 2015 · Winner
Henry Holt and Companynonfictionscience-natureISBN 9780805092998

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction2015Winner

About This Book

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert.

About the Author

Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author best known for her science and environmental writing. She has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, where her reporting on climate change and the natural world has reached millions of readers. She graduated from Yale University and later studied at the University of Hamburg on a Fulbright Scholarship. Read more →

Similar Award-Winning Books