First writing for The New York Times to inform the New York city area on Political Profiles of candidates for government office and issues that touched the New Yorkers from water pipe construction news to local gardening city plans. Notable profiles she has conduced are Hillary Clinton and former mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani. She then moved into column opinion piece writing before starting her science journalist career as an investigative researcher journalist.
The author of 3 books, her first material varies greatly in what her final two books are about. Published in 2004, her book The Prophet of Love describes the unique personalities and profiles of the different types of New Yorkers that make the city run. Political satire or investigative journalism, Elizabeth is able to blur the lines of these two vastly different types of books.
Kolbert's second book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, is an investigation and first-hand accounts of the debate within the world about man made climate change. The book shows the cause and effects of what society is doing that are causing a man made climate change, as well as potential consequences.
Her final book, and the book I will be reading and doing a review and critique of, is titled, The Sixth Extinction, an Unnatural History. This 2014 book, which won the Pulitzer Prize of nonfiction in 2015, has been praised by critics and the scientific community alike. It recalls that the Earth has gone through a period of 5 mass extinctions, the most recent being the extinction that killed off the dinosaurs. However, Kolbert claims since the industrial era of man, humans are currently putting the Earth through a sixth extinction.
Her investigations have touched a general audience in America that never may have never thought about such things as the consequences of their lifestyle.
-Wainam
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