Published in 2014, The Sixth Extinction is a non-fiction book chronicling how humans have drastically changed the environment in which we live. With the combination of pollution and deforestation, we have destroyed the lives of so many animals and animal species, that it is comparable - even much greater than - the extent of previous mass extinctions. Although very scientific, The Sixth Extinction is written in understandable language, as it is geared toward the common citizen.
Elizabeth Kolbert was born in America in 1961. Having attended Yale University, she is now an author and journalist, best known for her work The Sixth Extinction. For this book, she won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing. In 1983, Kolbert worked for the New York Times in Germany, and quickly advanced her status there. In 1999, she accepted a job for the New Yorker.
