Elizabeth Kolbert is the bestselling author of “Field Notes from a Catastrophe,” “The Sixth Extinction,” for which she won the Pulitzer Prize, and “Under a White Sky,” which was named a top ten book of the year by The Washington Post. 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. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.