Pictures from the Diane Ackerman Reading at SDSU April 2009

Photography from the Diane Ackerman reading at SDSU in April 2009--Bianca Chapman reading from The Zookeeper's Wife; Ackerman with Professor D. J. Hopkins, Theatre, SDSU; Diane Ackerman at her reading/luncheon at the San Diego Zoo; another shot of Chapman's dramatic reading (note mood lighting!); and, finally, a shot of English and Comparative Literature Chair Bill Nericcio with Ackerman after her conversation with the audience.

More About Diane Ackerman @ SDSU, Monday, April 20, 2009 at 6pm | Hardy Tower

literature.sdsu.edu welcomes DIANE ACKERMAN to SDSU, Monday, April 20, 2009!!!

Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of many highly acclaimed works of nonfiction, including A Natural History of the Senses--a book beloved by readers all over the world and the volumes Deep Play, A Slender Thread, The Rarest of the Rare, A Natural History of Love, The Moon by Whale Light, and a memoir on flying, On Extended Wings. Her poetry has been collected into six volumes, among them Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems and, most recently, Praise My Destroyer. Ms. Ackerman has received many prizes and awards, including the John Burroughs Nature Award and the Lavan Poetry Prize. A Visiting Professor at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, she was the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Professor at the University of Richmond. Ms. Ackerman also has the unusual distinction of having had a molecule named after her -- dianeackerone. She lives in upstate New York. [thanks Harper Collins, for the bio]

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literature.sdsu.edu welcomes DIANE ACKERMAN to SDSU