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MIT Program in
Writing and Humanistic Studies
MIT, Room 14E-303
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Telephone: 617-253-7894
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MIT Writers presents . . .
An evening with Nature Writer
Jennifer Ackerman
Thursday, April 30, 1998
4:30 p.m.
MIT Building 56, Room 114
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
free and open to the public - no tickets required
Jennifer Ackerman is a writer specializing in natural history and the biological sciences. She is currently a 1997-1998 fellow in creative nonfiction at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College.
She was educated at Yale College, where she studied literature and the arts, graduating cum laude in 1980 with a B.A. in English. Ackerman began writing full-time in 1989. Her work explores the riddle of humanity's place in the natural world, blending scientific knowledge and imaginative vision to create a modern philosophy of nature.
Ackerman's first book, NOTES FROM THE SHORE (Viking Penguin, 1995), is part memoir, part description and science, focusing on the natural life found at the ocean's edge. She is working on a second book entitled THE LONGEST THREAD, a literary exploration of the biological unities that bind the human species with other life forms. This book will be published by Viking Penguin in 2000.
A contributing writer and editor for THE NEW YORK TIMES, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, and other publications, Ackerman has written essays and articles on subjects ranging from Nobel-prizewinning developmental biologist Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard, to the nature and politics of barrier islands, the origin of birds and parasites as agents of evolutionary change.
For seven years Ackerman was a staff writer and researcher for the book division of the National Geographic Society, where she was editor-in-chief of THE CURIOUS NATURALIST, a collection of essays about approaching and understanding North American ecosystems.
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
For more information, call 617/253-7894
MIT Program in Writing - 77 Massachusetts Avenue
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