Diane Ackerman




Diane Ackerman

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born October 07, 1948
gender female
place of birth Waukegan, Illinois, United States
website http://www.dianeackerman.com
genre Literature & Fiction, Science, Poetry

about this author

Diane Ackerman received her B.A. in English from Penn State and an M.F.A. and Ph.D. in English from Cornell University in 1978. Her dissertation advisor was Carl Sagan. From 1980 to 1983 she taught English at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has been married to novelist Paul West since 1970. She currently resides in Ithaca, New York. A collection of her manuscripts, writings and papers is housed at the Cornell University Library.
Ackerman's awards and honors include: a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Burroughs Nature Award, and the Lavan Poetry Prize. She was named a "Literary Lion" by the New York Public Library, a

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avg rating: 3.90 | 2418 ratings | 35 distinct works
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War St... The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Hardcover)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 3.65 — 805 ratings — published 2007
9 editions
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An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel... An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (Paperback)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 3.91 — 119 ratings — published 2004
4 editions
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The Moon by Whale Light and Ot... The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales (Hardcover)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 4.16 — 70 ratings — published 1996
6 editions
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Deep Play Deep Play (Paperback)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 3.75 — 32 ratings — published 1999
4 editions
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A Natural History of Love A Natural History of Love (Hardcover)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 3.75 — 28 ratings — published 1995
8 editions
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Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New ... Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 3.44 — 27 ratings — published 1991
3 editions
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Slender Thread Slender Thread (Hardcover)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 4.00 — 23 ratings — published 1999
2 editions
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A Natural History of the Sense... A Natural History of the Senses (Hardcover)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 4.11 — 19 ratings — published 1995
11 editions
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I Praise My Destroyer: Poems I Praise My Destroyer: Poems (Paperback)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published 2000
2 editions
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Cultivating Delight: A Natural... Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden (Paperback)
by Diane Ackerman
avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 2002
3 editions
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"There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore."
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"...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto -- and they suffered the loss of nature like a phantom-limb pain, an amputation that scrambled the body's rhythms, starved the senses, and made basic ideas about the world impossible for children to fathom."
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""I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." "
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