Diane Ackerman has been the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction in addition to many other awards and recognitions for her work, which include the bestsellers The Zookeeper’s Wife and A Natural History of the Senses. The Zookeeper’s Wife, a little known true story of WWII, became a New York Times bestseller, and received the Orion Book Award, which honored it as, "a groundbreaking work of nonfiction." A movie of The Zookeeper’s Wife, starring Jessica Chastain and Daniel Brühl, releases in theaters March 31st, 2017 from Focus Features. She lives with her husband Paul West in Ithaca, New York.
Books
Reverse Thunder
A Dramatic Poem
1988
One Hundred Names for Love
A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
2011
Wife of Light
1978
Twilight of the Tenderfoot
A Western Memoir
1980
The Curious Naturalist
1994
Dawn Light
Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day
2009
The Book of Love
1998
Bats
1997
A Slender Thread
Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
1996
A Slender Thread
Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
1997
Origami Bridges
Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire
2000
The Zookeeper's Wife
2007
The Human Age
The World Shaped By Us
2014
A Natural History of the Senses
1990
I Praise My Destroyer
Poems
1998
A Natural History of Love
1994
Deep Play
1999
By Nature's Design
1993
The Rarest of the Rare
Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
1995
On Extended Wings
An Adventure in Flight
1985
An Alchemy of Mind
The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain
2004
Jaguar of Sweet Laughter
New and Selected Poems
1991
Animal Sense
2003
The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales
1991
Cultivating Delight
A Natural History of My Garden
2001
