Elizabeth Kolbert
The New Yorker
Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author, most recently, of “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future.” Her previous book, “The Sixth Extinction,” received the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner and has received a Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Academies communications award. Kolbert is a visiting fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies at Williams College.