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Diane Ackerman



Diane Ackerman, PhD, is an American naturalist, poet, bestselling author, and teacher. Much of her work centers around natural history, science, and the interdependence of all living things. She is a self-described “Earth ecstatic.”

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DIane Ackerman: Introducing Paul’s 100 Names

In October 2010, I visited authors Diane Ackerman and Paul West at their upstate New York home, where we spent two days talking about Diane's forthcoming book. Several early readers had called it her best to date; without question, it’s the most personal, affecting work of her career.

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The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales

In a rare blend of scientific fact and poetic truth, the acclaimed author of A Natural History of the Senses explores the activities of whales, penguins, bats, and crocodilians, plunging headlong into nature and coming up with highly entertaining treasures.

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Handmade Landscapes

We manufacture new vistas and move so comfortably among them that quite often we confuse them with natural habitats.

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Diane Ackerman: Building the Mosaic of Emotion and Human Experience

Diane Ackerman, a poet, essayist and naturalist, imparts her passionate love of life and language to Upon Reflection host Marcia Alvar in this 1997 video from University of Washington.

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Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day

A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.

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The Lonely Polar Bear

We share many of our motives, feelings and instincts with other animals.

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Diane Ackerman, Author of “The Zookeeper’s Wife”

The Zookeeper’s Wife is about one of the most successful hideouts of World War II. It’s a tale of people, animals, transcendence, and subversive acts of compassion.

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A Natural History of the Senses

In a celebration of our ability to smell, taste, touch, hear, and see, Diane Ackerman weaves together scientific facts with lore, history, and description to create an enchanting account of how humans experience the world.

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Romanticizing the Reader

The best thing about a book tour is meeting your imagined readers, staring into their lamplit faces, hearing a little about their lives and, for a slender moment anyway, feeling the reciprocity of your trade.

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Deep Play

With A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman let her free-ranging intellect loose on the natural world. Now in Deep Play she tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play.

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