Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Sixth Extinction" to speak on campus

April 11, 2016

Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for "The Sixth Extinction" and staff writer for The New Yorker, will be the featured speaker at UW-Whitewater's Contemporary Issues Lecture Series on Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 7 p.m. in the Young Auditorium.

"Elizabeth Kolbert is an excellent speaker to have to celebrate Earth Week on campus," said Susan Johnson, Assistant Dean of the College of Letters and Science at UW-Whitewater.  "Her Pulitzer prize-winning book has been lauded for making science accessible to a general audience," Johnson said.

Kolbert's three-part series on global warming, "The Climate of Man" won the 2006 National Magazine Award and the 2005 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award.  She received a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2006 and a Heinz Award in 2010.  In addition to the Pulitzer Prize, "The Sixth Extinction" was listed as a 2014 New York Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year.  

The Contemporary Issues Lectures Series is sponsored by UW-Whitewater's College of Letters and Science and is co-sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education.