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Diane Ackermanauthor profile |
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| born | October 07, 1948 |
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| gender | female |
| place of birth | Waukegan, Illinois, United States |
| website | http://www.dianeackerman.com |
| genre | Literature & Fiction, Science, Poetry |
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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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books by Diane Ackermancombine editionsavg rating: 3.90 | 2418 ratings | 35 distinct works see all books by Diane Ackerman » |
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quotes by Diane Ackerman
"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."
— Diane Ackerman
— Diane Ackerman
"...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."
— Diane Ackerman
— Diane Ackerman
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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." "
— Diane Ackerman
— Diane Ackerman