![]() More photos of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of The Zookeeper's Wife may be seen at the website called "The House Under the Crazy Star". Adaptations Ī movie adaptation of Ackerman's book, The Zookeeper's Wife, starring Jessica Chastain as Antonina Żabińska, was released in the US on March 31, 2017. Ackerman also writes nature books for children. Her verse play, Reverse Thunder, celebrates the passionate and tragic life of the 17th century nun, and fellow poet and naturalist, Juana Inés de la Cruz. Her first book of poetry, The Planets, A Cosmic Pastoral was gifted by Carl Sagan to Timothy Leary while Leary was imprisoned. Her poetry has been published in leading literary journals, and in collections, including Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems. Her works of nonfiction include, most recently, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, which celebrates nature, human ingenuity, and explores how we've become the dominant force of change on the planet her memoir One Hundred Names for Love, about stroke, aphasia, and healing Dawn Light, a poetic meditation on dawn and awakening The Zookeeper's Wife, narrative nonfiction set in Warsaw during World War II, a tale of people, animals, and subversive acts of compassion An Alchemy of Mind about the marvels and mysteries of the brain, based on modern neuroscience Cultivating Delight, a natural history of her garden Deep Play, which considers play, creativity, and our need for transcendence A Slender Thread, about her work as a crisis line counselor The Rarest of the Rare and The Moon by Whale Light, in which she explores the plight and fascination of endangered animals A Natural History of Love, a literary tour of love's many facets On Extended Wings, her memoir of flying and A Natural History of the Senses, an exploration of the five senses. 6299) is housed at the Cornell University Library. Ī collection of her manuscripts, writings and papers (the Diane Ackerman Papers, 1971–1997-Collection No. A molecule has been named after her- dianeackerone-a crocodilian sex pheromone. In 1986, she was a semi-finalist for NASA's Journalist-in-Space Project -this program was cancelled after the Space Shuttle Challenger (carrying Christa McAuliffe as a payload specialist with the Teacher in Space Project) disaster. Her research has taken her to such diverse locales as Mata Atlantic in Brazil (working with endangered golden lion tamarins), Patagonia ( right whales), Hawaii ( humpback whales), California (tagging monarch butterflies at their overwintering sites), French Frigate Shoals ( monk seals), Toroshima, Japan ( short-tailed albatross), Texas (with Bat Conservation International), the Amazon rainforest, and Antarctica ( penguins). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and many other journals. ![]() ![]() She has taught at a number of universities, including Columbia and Cornell. Among the members of her dissertation committee was Carl Sagan, an astronomer and the creator of the Cosmos television series. ![]() ![]() Education and career Īckerman received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts and Ph.D. Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |