Diane Fink Ackerman biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Diane Fink Ackerman

Author Name:

Diane Fink Ackerman

Born As:

Diane Fink

Other Names:

Diane Fink Ackerman

Born:

7 Oct 1948

Died:





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Poet and nature writer                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral - 1976
Wife of Light - 1978
Lady Faustus - 1983
Reverse Thunder - verse play - 1988
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems - 1991
I Praise My Destroyer - 1998
The Senses of Animals - 2000
Origami Bridges - 2002

Non-Fiction:

Twilight of the Tenderfoot - 1980
On Extended Wings - 1985
A Natural History of the Senses - 1990
The Moon by Whale Light, and Other Adventures Among Bats and Crocodilains, Penguins and Whales - 1991
A Natural History of Love - 1994
The Rarest of the Rare - 1995
A Slender Thread - 1997
Deep Play - 1999
Cultivating Delight - 2002
An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain - 2004
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story - 2007

Children's books:

Monk Seal Hideaway - 1995
Bats: Shadows in the Night - 1997
Animal Sense - poetry - 2003.                          
                          
Guggenheim Fellowship 
John Burroughs Nature Award 
Lavan Poetry Prize
Orion Book Award for The Zookeepers Wife.
Named a “Literary Lion" by the New York Public Library                          
Diane has a B.A. in English from Penn State ., M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Diane has a molecule "dianeackerone"  named after her.