Diane Ackerman

A poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman earned an MFA and a PhD from Cornell University. She is well known for both her poetry and her nonfiction writing. Her books of prose include The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us (2014), a New York Times bestseller and winner of the PEN Henry David Thoreau Prize; the memoir One Hundred Names for Love (2011), finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Zookeeper’s Wife (2007), winner of the Orion Book Award; and the best-selling A Natural History of the Senses (1990). Ackerman has also written several books for children and coedited Norton’s Book of Love (1998) with Jeanne Mackin. (Source)