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Elizabeth Kolbert

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American journalist and author

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Born
1961
Works
13

Top works

  • The Arctic
  • The Ends of the Earth
  • Under a White Sky
  • Field notes from a catastrophe
  • The Sixth Extinction

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Quotes

  • Looking out your window today, the weather you see doesn’t really tell you what’s going on. The earth is big and complicated — and there’s a big time lag in the system. People need to understand that. You know, many people, many scientists, many journalists keep trying to impress that upon the public. It obviously isn’t working very well, but we keep trying.
  • I think what all nonfiction writers are aiming for is to make people think about things differently — to tell you a story from somewhere that, if you’re vaguely familiar with it, challenges what you think you know about it, or, if it’s a story you’ve never heard before, introduces you to a whole new place or a whole new idea. I’m basically trying to tilt your worldview a little bit.
  • After a mass extinction, it has generally tended to take many millions of years for life to recover. It's not something that you bounce back from, from one day to the next.

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Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. She is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

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