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Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Awards
Shortlisted — National Book Critics Circle Award, 2011
Commended — New York Times Notable Selection, 2014
Shortlisted — Pulitzer Prize, 2012
Books by Diane Ackerman
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Paperback, 2008
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir
Paperback, 2012
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
"A testament to the power of creativity in language, life—and love." —Heller McAlpin, Washington Post
The Book of Love
Hardback, 1998
Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Hardback, 2007
The New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
Hardback, 2009
A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us
Hardback, 2014
As Diane Ackerman writes in her brilliant new book, The Human Age, "our relationship with nature has changed…radically, irreversibly, but by no means all for the bad. Our new epoch is laced with...
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
Hardback, 2011
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Circle Critics Award
"Diane Ackerman's most enjoyable, intimate, and heartrending work yet."—Atul Gawande
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
Paperback, 2011
"It's easy to live in the moment when you're immersed in Ackerman's glorious prose." —Washington Post
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
E Book, 2008
The New York Times bestseller now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain.
A true story in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
E Book, 2009
A celebrated storyteller-poet-naturalist explores a year of dawns in her most personal book to date.