An Evening with Elizabeth Kolbert 7PM Friday, March 2, 2018
Skidmore College Gannett Auditorium
Free Tickets, available at the Saratoga Springs Public Library Information Desk, are required.
SaratogaREADS! is delighted to welcome Elizabeth Kolbert back to Saratoga Springs to discuss The Sixth Extinction, and her experience writing and researching this Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of mass extinction events and how humankind is contributing to the rapid rate of change that presages another. A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, and author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man Nature and Climate Change, Ms. Kolbert has been widely recognized for her journalism. In addition to the winning the Pulitzer Prize, The Sixth Extinction was a New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and an American Library Association Notable Book, and tops The Guardian’s list of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time. She is the Class of 1946 Environmental Fellow-in-Residence at Williams College.
More information about SaratogaREADS! can be found at http://saratogareads.org/info/about-us/ and more information about this year's selection and related events at http://saratogareads.org/site/assets/files/1209/2018_announcement_brochure-1.pdf