

She has taught at a variety of universities, including Columbia and Cornell, and she hosted a PBS series based on A Natural History Of the Senses. She also has the unusual distinction of having a molecule named after her. Diane Ackerman A Natural History Of Love Paperback Februby Diane Ackerman (Author) 63 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 10.58 75 Used from 1.50 5 New from 12.37 8 Collectible from 11.55 Paperback 17.95 82 Used from 1.44 16 New from 12.05 3 Collectible from 6. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards, including an honorary degree from Kenyon College, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Burroughs Nature Award, Orion Book Award, Lavan Poetry Prize, and the PEN John David Thoreau Award, as well as being honored as a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. She also writes nature books for children. She writes regular opinion pieces about the natural world, human endeavors and the intersection between the two.

Her poetry has been published in leading literary journals, and in the books Origami Bridges, I Praise My Destroyer, Jaguar Of Sweet Laughter, Lady Faustus, Reverse Thunder, Wife Of Light, and The Planets. Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of two dozen highly acclaimed works of nonfiction and poetry, including A Natural History of the Senses and The Zookeeper’s Wife. Her works of nonfiction include The Human Age (The World Shaped by Us) her memoir One Hundred Names For Love, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Circle Critics Award the bestseller, The Zookeeper's Wife, about one of the most successful hideouts of World War II An Alchemy Of Mind, a poetics of the brain based on the latest neuroscience Cultivating Delight Deep Play A Slender Thread The Rarest Of The Rare The Moon By Whale Light A Natural History Of Love On Extended Wings and the bestseller A Natural History Of the Senses.
