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Diane Ackerman

Diane Ackerman is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world. - Wikipedia

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Author, poet, naturalist

Born October 7, 1948

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  • Cover of: Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
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  • Cover of: A natural history of the senses
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  • Cover of: The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Thorndike Press Large Print Biography Series)
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  • Cover of: A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis
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  • Cover of: The moon by whale light: and other adventures among bats, penguins, crocodilians, and whales
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  • Cover of: Dawn light: dancing with cranes and other ways to start the day
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    First published in 2009 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: A natural history of love
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  • Cover of: Jaguar of sweet laughter: new & selected poems
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: Readers Companion: Silver
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  • Cover of: Animal sense
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    First published in 2003 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: On extended wings
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    First published in 1985 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: An alchemy of mind: the marvel and mystery of the brain
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    First published in 2004 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Origami bridges: poems of psychoanalysis and fire
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  • Cover of: The rarest of the rare: vanishing animals, timeless worlds
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    First published in 1995 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The senses of animals: poems

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  • Cover of: I Praise My Destroyer: Poems
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  • Cover of: Twilight of the tenderfoot: a Western memoir

    First published in 1980 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The planets: A cosmic pastoral: [poems]

    First published in 1976 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Related Readings

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Author, poet, naturalist

Born October 7, 1948

Subjects

Ethnic relations, Psychology, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Senses and sensation, Zoo keepers, Case studies, Poetry (poetic works by one author), American poetry, Biography, American literature, Anglo-Saxons, Animals, Children's fiction, Drama, Effect of environment on, Endangered species, Fiction, Human behavior, Human beings, Juvenile audience, Manners and customs, Mystery and detective stories, Natural history, New York Times reviewed, Poetry

Places

Poland, Warsaw, Warsaw (Poland), Calcutta, England, India, Surrey, United States, Ithaca (N.Y.), New Mexico, Palm Beach (Fla.), Tequesquite Ranch, Tequesquite Ranch (N.M.)

People

Antonina Żabińska, Jan Żabiński (1897-1974), Diane Ackerman (1948-), Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Stroke Moran, Diane Ackerman, Claude Monet (1840-1926), Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849), Paul West (1930-), Sei Shōnagon (b. ca. 967)

Time

1939, 20th century

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September 27, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
July 25, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Author Bio
July 25, 2016 Edited by Hemanth Kumar Added new photo
July 25, 2009 Created by ImportBot new author