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We are pleased to announce that Williamstown local and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Elizabeth Kolbert, will read from her latest book, Life on a Little-Known Planet, in celebration of Earth Day.
Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize. For her work at The New Yorker, where she's a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her 2021 book Under a White Sky was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. Her most recent books are H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z, and Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World. Kolbert lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Caterpillar photo taken by David Wagner.
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