David George Haskell

David Haskell is a writer and biologist known for his integration of science, lyrical writing, and close observation of the living world. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction. The late E. O. Wilson said of his writing that it is "...a new genre of nature writing, located between science and poetry". Deborah Blum, Pulitzer Prize winner and director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT, wrote that he "may be the finest literary nature writer working today". Haskell's books -- The Forest Unseen, The Songs of Trees, Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree, and Sounds Wild and Broken -- are acclaimed for their attention to the richness of the living world and the ecological and evolutionary stories that bring this richness into being. They have won numerous awards including the US National Academies’ Best Book Award, John Burroughs Medal, Reed Environmental Writing Award, National Outdoor Book Award, Iris Book Award, and two-time finalist for both the PEN/Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Pulitzer. Born in London, brought up in France, he has lived for the last thirty years in the United States. Haskell received his BA from the University of Oxford and PhD from Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim Fellow, and Professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, where he has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching. In a world beset by barriers, his work reminds us that life’s substance and beauty emerge from relationship and interdependence. Find him at dghaskell.com or on social media @DGHaskell (Twitter), DavidGeorgeHaskell (Instagram and Facebook).