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Master of Fine Arts, Cornell University, 1976.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1978.
Career
Editorial assistant Library Journal, New York City, 1970. One of America's most acclaim...)
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Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Author's Guild, Explorer's Club.
She then held teaching positions at the University of Pittsburgh (1980-1983) and Washington University (1984-1986), and was a staff writer for the New Yorker from 1988 to 1994.
In 1976, Ackerman published The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral, her first solo volume of poetry. She pursued graduate study at Cornell University, graduating in 1973 with a master of fine arts degree.
It was followed by Wife of Light in 1978, Lady Faustus (1983), and Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems (1991).
In the early 1990s, Ackerman published two nonfiction works about...
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BIOGRAPHY
The Zookeeper's Wife, a little known true story of WWII, enjoyed months as the New York Times #1 nonfiction bestseller, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as "a groundbreaking work of nonfiction, in which the human relationship to nature is explored in an absolutely original way through looking at the Holocaust.
A few years ago, 'nature' writers were asking themselves, How can a book be at the same time a work of art, an act of conscientious objection to the destruction of the world, and an affirmation of hope and human decency? ...)
J. Simpson/Final Rounds (Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction, Volume 43: 1997)
(Some of the best nonfiction books of 1997.)
(1983 WILLIAM MORROW PUBLISHING HARDCOVER)
(Photographed in full color. The Zookeeper's Wife answers this question." A movie of The Zookeeper's Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and directed by Niki Caro, appeared in 2017.
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Recipient Black Warrior Review Poetry prize, 1981; Abbie Copps Poetry prize, 1974; Pushcart prize, 1983; Peter I.B. Lavan Poetry prize, 1985; CAPS creative writing fellow, 1980; Rockefeller fellow, 1974-1975; National Endowment Arts fellow, 1976, 85; National Book Circuit Critics nomination, 1991; Wordsmith award, 1992; Literary Lion award New York Public Library., 1994.
Visiting writer Columbia University, New York City, 1986, New York University, 1986.
Member literature panel New York State Council on Arts, since 1980. She attended Boston University from 1966 to 1967, and then enrolled at Pennsylvania State University, from which she graduated in 1970 with a bachelor of arts degree. Writer-in-residence Washington University, St.
Louis, since 1984, director WRiting Programs, since 1982.
Connections
- Father:
- Sam Fink
- Mother:
- Marcia Molly (Tischler) Fink
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Ackerman's other works of nonfiction include: An Alchemy of Mind, a poetics of the brain based on the latest neuroscience; Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My 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; On Extended Wings, her memoir of flying; and her bestseller, A Natural History of the Senses.Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman, American author, educator.
Diane Ackerman Biography | Author of On Location in the Loire Valley
Diane Ackerman was born October 7, 1948, in Waukegan, Illinois, the daughter of Sam (a restaurant owner) and Marcia (Tischler) Fink. Member poetry panel Pennsylvania Arts Council, 1980, Creative Artists Public Service Program, 1978.
She went on to earn a master of arts degree in 1976, and a Ph.D. in English in 1978. Teaching fellow Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1971-1978. Assistant professor University Pittsburgh, since 1980.
Visiting writer-in-residence College William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1982-1983, Ohio University, Athens, 1983.
Education
Student, Boston University, 1967. Bachelor in English, Pennsylvania State University, 1970.