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Diane Ackerman

Autore di The Zookeeper's Wife

45+ opere 12,121 membri 311 recensioni 42 preferito

Sull'Autore

Diane Ackerman was born on October 7, 1948 in Waukegan, Illinois. She received a B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and her M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Poet, author, educator, adventurer, and naturalist, she tries to bridge science and art in her mostra altro writing, exploring questions of who we are, where we come from, and how we fit into the fabric of the world. She has written many books of poetry including The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral; Wife of Light; Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems; Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire; and I Praise My Destroyer. Her nonfiction works include A Natural History of the Senses; A Natural History of Love; The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Crocodilians, Penguins, and Whales; An Alchemy of Mind; and On Extended Wings. She also writes nature books for children including Animal Sense; Monk Seal Hideaway; and Bats: Shadows in the Night. She is coeditor of a Norton anthology, The Book of Love. Her essays about nature and human nature have appeared in Parade, National Geographic, The New York Times, and The New Yorker magazines. She hosted a five-hour PBS television series inspired by A Natural History of the Senses. She received the Orion Book Award for The Zookeepers Wife. Her other awards include the Abbie Copps Poetry Prize, Black Warrior Poetry Prize, Pushcart Prize, Peter I. B. Lavan award, and the Wordsmith award. She has taught at a variety of universities, including Columbia and Cornell. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Copyright Eye On Books.

Opere di Diane Ackerman

The Zookeeper's Wife (2007) 4,766 copie
A Natural History of the Senses (1990) — Autore — 2,888 copie
A Natural History Of Love (1994) 789 copie
Deep Play (1999) 245 copie
The Book of Love (1998) 140 copie
Animal Sense (2003) 62 copie
Monk Seal Hideaway (1995) 13 copie
Wife of light: [poems] (1978) 7 copie
Lady Faustus (1983) 7 copie
NOVA: Mystery of the Senses: Hearing [1995 TV episode] (1995) — Narrator / Screenwriter — 6 copie
NOVA: Mystery of the Senses: Vision [1995 TV episode] (1995) — Narrator / Screenwriter — 5 copie
NOVA: Mystery of the Senses [1995 TV series] (1995) — Narrator / Screenwriter — 5 copie
NOVA: Mystery of the Senses: Touch [1995 TV episode] (2007) — Narrator / Screenwriter — 4 copie
NOVA: Mystery of the Senses: Smell [1995 TV episode] (2007) — Narrator / Screenwriter — 3 copie
Zoologico de Varsovia, O (2017) 3 copie
Azyl (Polish Edition) (2017) 1 copia

Opere correlate

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Collaboratore — 627 copie
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Collaboratore — 397 copie
The Best American Essays 2001 (2001) — Collaboratore — 235 copie
A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader (2018) — Collaboratore — 234 copie
The Best American Science Writing 2005 (2005) — Collaboratore — 191 copie
The Best American Science Writing 2004 (2004) — Collaboratore — 152 copie
The Curious Naturalist (1980) — Collaboratore — 149 copie
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (1998) — Collaboratore — 122 copie
The Zookeeper's Wife [2017 film] (2017) — Original book — 83 copie
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
The Gardener's Bedside Reader (2008) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
In Our Nature: Stories of Wildness (2000) — Prefazione — 18 copie
Night: A Literary Companion (2009) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry (1982) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 43 (1997) — Autore — 3 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome legale
Ackerman, Diane
Altri nomi
Ackermann, Diane
Data di nascita
1948-10-07
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Waukegan, Illinois, USA
Luogo di residenza
Ithaca, New York, USA
Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Istruzione
Pennsylvania State University (BA | 1970 - English)
Cornell University (MFA | 1973 | MA | 1976 | PhD | 1978 - English)
Attività lavorative
professor of English
naturalist
author
poet
Relazioni
West, Paul (husband) (1)
Sagan, Carl (doctoral advisor)
Organizzazioni
Authors Guild
Columbia University
Cornell University
The New Yorker
University of Pittsburgh
Premi e riconoscimenti
Guggenheim Fellowship
John Burroughs Nature Award
Lavan Poetry Prize
New York Public Library Literary Lion
Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award (1985)
Fellow, New York Institute for the Humanities (mostra tutto 7)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016)
Agente
Suzanne Gluck (William Morris Agency)
Alison Granucci (Blue Flower Arts)
Breve biografia
Diane Ackerman is the author of two dozen highly-acclaimed works of poetry and nonfiction, including the bestsellers "The Zookeeper's Wife" and "A Natural History of the Senses," and the Pulitzer Prize Finalist, "One Hundred Names for Love."

In her most recent book, "The Human Age: the World Shaped by Us," she confronts the unprecedented fact that the human race is now the single dominant force of change on the whole planet. Humans have "subdued 75 percent of the land surface, concocted a wizardry of industrial and medical marvels, strung lights all across the darkness." Ackerman takes us on an exciting journey to understand this bewildering new reality, introducing us to many of the inspiring people and ideas now creating, and perhaps saving, our future

A note from the author: "I find that writing each book becomes a mystery trip, one filled with mental (and sometimes physical) adventures. The world revealing itself, human nature revealing itself, is seductive and startling, and that's always been fascinating enough to send words down my spine. Please join me on my travels. I'd enjoy the company."

Contact me or follow my posts here: www.dianeackerman.com, @dianesackerman, www.facebook.com/dianeackerman.aut

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"Ho fatto solo il mio dovere. Se puoi salvare la vita di qualcuno, è tuo dovere provarci." Con questa semplicità disarmante Jan Vabiski, direttore dello zoo di Varsavia negli anni della seconda guerra mondiale, ha parlato della straordinaria impresa grazie alla quale lui e la moglie Antonina sottrassero alla furia nazista più di trecento ebrei. È il 1939, i bombardamenti tedeschi devastano lo storico zoo della capitale polacca: Jan e Antonina reagiscono allo sgomento e salvano gli animali superstiti. Ma ben presto il razzismo nazista si accanisce verso gli uomini: quando iniziano i pogrom contro gli ebrei, i due coniugi non esitano a trasformare lo zoo in un rifugio per i perseguitati, creando un mondo alla rovescia in cui gli "ospiti" segreti vengono chiamati con il nome in codice degli animali di cui occupano la gabbia vuota, mentre le bestie portano nomi di persona. Al disprezzo per chi è diverso e alla follia di voler imporre alla natura un disegno mitomane, Jan e Antonina oppongono il rispetto per gli esseri viventi, che siano animali in pericolo o ebrei polacchi, "uomini in via d'estinzione". Basandosi sul diario di Antonina e su molte altre fonti storiche, l'autrice ha recuperato dall'oblio una storia vera di coraggio e compassione. (fonte: Sperling & Kupfer)… (altro)
 
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Opere
45
Opere correlate
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Utenti
12,121
Popolarità
#1,936
Voto
½ 3.7
Recensioni
311
ISBN
214
Lingue
15
Preferito da
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