Bloomsbury India Announces That the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction has Been Awarded to 'The Sixth Extinction' by Elizabeth Kolbert

NEW DELHI, April 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert has won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Additionally, over the weekend, the book won the LA Times Book Award for Science and Technology.

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About The Sixth Extinction:

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions of life on earth.

Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.

Elizabeth Kolbert combines brilliant field reporting, the history of ideas and the work of geologists, botanists and marine biologists to tell the gripping stories of a dozen species - including the Panamanian golden frog and the Sumatran rhino - some already gone, others at the point of vanishing.

The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy and Elizabeth Kolbert's book urgently compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Kolbert was a New York Times reporter for fourteen years until she became a staff writer at the New Yorker in 1999. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.

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About Bloomsbury India:

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Bloomsbury India's authors include the international best-selling writers J K Rowling, Khaled Hosseini and Elizabeth Gilbert; Booker Prize winners Margaret Atwood and Howard Jacobson; Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer; and the best-selling author of inspirational books in India, Shiv Khera.

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