Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman, poet, essayist, and naturalist, has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards for her work, which includes the best-selling The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. Her memoir One Hundred Words for Love was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has hosted the PBS series “Mystery of the Senses” and has the rare distinction of having a molecule named after herÑdianeackeroneÑ a pheromone in crocodilians.

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