The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Name: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
ISBN: 9780805092998

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Kirkus Prize · 2014 · ShortlistNational Book · 2014 · Shortlist

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Henry HoltFebruary 11, 2014Nonfiction Science & NatureISBN 9780805092998

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction	2014	Shortlist
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	2014	Shortlist

About This Book

Elizabeth Kolbert argues that human activity is driving a sixth mass extinction comparable to the five that preceded it in geological time. Traveling to coral reefs, the Amazon, and other ecosystems, she profiles species already lost and those on the brink. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2015, and shortlisted for the NBCC Award.

About the Author

Elizabeth KolbertUS

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 →