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TITLE: Diane Ackerman: Book Fest 07
SPEAKER: Diane Ackerman
EVENT DATE: 09/29/2007
RUNNING TIME: 26 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Diane Ackerman appears at the 2007 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Diane Ackerman is an author, poet, and naturalist known for her nonfiction works, which include the best-selling "An Alchemy of Mind" (2004) and "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story" (W.W. Norton, 2007). Her essays about nature and human nature have appeared in The New York Times, Parade, and The New Yorker, among other journals. She is the recipient of many prizes and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Burroughs Nature Award, and the Lavan Poetry Prize. She has the rare distinction of having a molecule -- dianeackerone -- named after her. She lives in upstate New York.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2007