Literary Arts lecture November 20, 2007

Diane Ackerman
November 20, 2007
Portland Arts & Lectures

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 7:30 pm

“To exile ourselves from nature … is biologically impossible,” essayist and poet Diane Ackerman has noted. A curious observer of the natural world and the complexities of human nature, Ackerman has published many acclaimed books of nonfiction, including the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses (1991). The Chicago Sun-Times has observed that she is “smart and capable … brimming with the kind of infectious enthusiasm and wonder found generally only in children.” W.W. Norton will publish her book of narrative nonfiction, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, in September. Ackerman is the author of six volumes of poetry, most recently Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis & Fire (2002). She also has the rare privilege of having a molecule named after her: the dianeackerone.

Ackerman has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her essays appear regularly in The New York Times, the New Yorker and National Geographic. Underwritten by Ater Wynne LLP.

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