Pulitzer Prize author Elizabeth Kolbert to discuss her book “Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” at the Leopold Lecture on October 12

The 33rd Annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture, delivered this year by author Elizabeth Kolbert who will discuss her book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, on October 12, 2022 at 5pm CT at Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern University. The event is free and open to the public. To attend, get your tickets here.

A moderated Q&A session will be held at the end of the talk. Learn more about the event here.

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 and is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe and The Sixth Extinction, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2015. Her most recent book, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, was a national bestseller and was recommended by both Barack Obama and Bill Gates, as well as named one of the best books of 2021 by the Washington Post, TIME, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Smithsonian Magazine. Elizabeth Kolbert is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the prestigious Heinz Award in the Environment, which recognizes individuals for their work in confronting environmental concerns, as well as the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2021, Kolbert was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.