How Flowers Made our World: The Story of Nature’s Revolutionaries
June 23 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
David George Haskell is a writer and biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His most recent book, How Flowers Made our World, explores the creative powers of flowering plants. Haskell is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, in 2012 for The Forest Unseen and in 2022 for Sounds Wild and Broken. His 2017 book, The Songs of Trees won the John Burroughs Medal. Other literary honors include an Award in Literature from American Academy of Arts and Letters. Haskell has also written essays and multimedia experiences for The New York Times, Emergence Magazine, and other venues. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim Fellow, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Sciences at Emory University, and Emeritus Professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. https://dghaskell.com/.
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