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Diane Ackerman
Biography
Diane Ackerman is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses (Vintage, 1990) and The Zookeeper’s Wife: A Love Story (Norton, 2007), which won the Orion Book Award. Her many honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Poets Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.