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Jennifer Ackerman

Award-Winning Author & Writer

Award-Winning Author & Writer

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Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Jennifer Ackerman Biography

Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science and nature for 30 years and is the author of eight books. Her most recent book is The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, forthcoming from Penguin Press in May 2020. Her previous book, The Genius of Birds , is a New York Times bestseller. Scientific American describes the book as “a lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence," and The Wall Street Journal calls it "a gloriously provocative and highly entertaining book." The book was named one of the 10 best nonfiction books of 2016 by The Wall Street Journal, a Best Science Book of 2016 by National Public Radio's "Science Friday", a Best Book of the Year by The Spectator and the National Post, and a Nature Book of the Year by the London Sunday Times. It was a finalist for the 2017 National Academies Communication Book Award and for the 2017 Smart Book Award in Poland and was long-listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. The Genius of Birds is published in more than twenty languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.

Jennifer’s previous books include Birds by the Shore (a 2019 reissue by Penguin Press of her first book, Notes from the Shore); Ah-Choo! The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold (Twelve Press, 2010), Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), andChance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity (Houghton Mifflin 2001). Her articles and essays have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, and many other publications.

Jennifer is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including an NEA Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Institute Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her writing has been included in several anthologies, among them, Best American Science Writing, The Nature Reader, Best Nature Writing, Flights of Imagination: Extraordinary Writings About Birds, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean.

Jennifer’s work aims to explain and interpret science for a lay audience and to explore the riddle of humanity’s place in the natural world, blending scientific knowledge with imaginative vision.

Jennifer Ackerman Videos

  • Jennifer Ackerman- USFWS author interview about The Genius of ...
    The Jennifer Ackerman author interview with Mark Madison of the USFWS about The Genius of Birds.
  • Jennifer Ackerman: The Genius of Birds
    Did you know that some species of birds can store up to 2000 songs in a brain a thousand times smaller than a human's? At MWF17, acclaimed ...
  • Trying to Beat a Cold? Jennifer Ackerman, author of AH-CHOO!, Has ...
    Jennifer Ackerman, author of AH-CHOO! The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold (TWELVE books, September 2010) dishes on which cold ...

Jennifer Ackerman Books

  • The Genius of Birds
    The Genius of Birds
  • The Genius Of Birds [hardcover] Howard Hughes
    The Genius Of Birds [hardcover] Howard Hughes
  • Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
    Ah-Choo!: The Uncommon Life of Your Common Cold
  • Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
    Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body
  • Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity
    Chance in the House of Fate: A Natural History of Heredity

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Jennifer Ackerman is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Jennifer Ackerman for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Jennifer Ackerman generally travels from Charlottesville, VA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are David Suzuki, Tristram Stuart, Jamie Margolin, Henry Gordon-Smith and Dr. Sylvia Hood Washington. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jennifer Ackerman for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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