Elizabeth Kolbert

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. She has written dozens of pieces for the magazine, including profiles of Senator Hillary Clinton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Her series on global warming, "The Climate of Man," appeared in The New Yorker in the spring of 2005, and won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine award, as well as the 2006 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category. She has also been awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship (2006). Her stories have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother Jones, and have been anthologized in "The Best American Science and Nature Writing" and "The Best American Political Writing." A collection of her work, The Prophet of Love and Other Tales of Power and Deceit, was published in 2004. Prior to joining the staff of The New Yorker, Ms. Kolbert was for fourteen years, a political reporter for The New York Times. Ms. Kolbert was born in 1961 and is a graduate of Yale University. She currently lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts with her husband and three sons.