Diane Ackerman life and biography

Diane Ackerman is an American author, poet, and naturalist known best for her work A Natural History of the Senses. Her writing style, referring to her best-selling natural history books, can best be described as a blend of poetry, colloquial history, and easy-reading science. She has taught at various universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and her essays regularly appear in distinguished popular and literary journals.

Author of books:

The Planets (1976, poetry)
Wife of Light (1978, poetry)
Twilight of the Tenderfoot (1980, nonfiction)
Lady Faustus (1983, poetry)
On Extended Wings (1985, memoir)
A Natural History of the Senses (1990, nonfiction)
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems (1991, poetry)
The Moon by Whale Light, and Other Adventures Among Bats and Crocodilains, Penguins and Whales (1991)
A Natural History of Love (1994, nonfiction)
The Rarest of the Rare (1995, nonfiction)
A Slender Thread (1997, nonfiction)
I Praise My Destroyer (1998, poetry)
Deep Play (1999, nonfiction)
Origami Bridges (2002, poetry)
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (2004, nonfiction)
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (2007)
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day (2009)
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing (2011)

Wrote plays:
Reverse Thunder (1988)

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