David George Haskell

David George Haskell is a British-born American biologist, author, and professor of biology at Sewanee: The University of the SouthIn addition to scientific articles, he wrote essays, poems, opinion pieces, and the book... The Unseen Forest (Viking Press, Penguin Random House 2012) and The Songs of the Trees (Viking Press, Penguin Random House 2017). The Unseen Forest was the winner of the Communication Award of National Academies 2013 Award for Best Book, finalist for the Prize Pulitzer General Nonfiction Award winner in 2013, runner-up in the PEN/E. 2013 O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, winner of the 2012 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature and the Prize Reed Environmental Writing Study of 2013. The Unseen Forest It has been translated into ten languages ​​and was the winner of the Prize. Dapeng's Nature Book 2016 in China. Haskell's second book, The Songs of the Trees, was published in April 2017. Won the Medal John Burroughs From 2018. It was considered one of the best scientific books of 2017, and Maria Popova included the book in... Brain Pickings Favorite Science Books of 2017, and the Forbes.com He considered the book one of the 10 best in the environmental field. Haskell received his B.A. in zoology from Oxford University and his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from Cornell UniversityIn 2009, he was appointed Carnegie-CASE Professor of the Year in Tennessee. He was also awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014.