Order of Diane Ackerman Books
Diane Ackerman is an American naturalist, poet, and author of essay collections. She is known as an author for writing the books: The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, The Moon by Whale Light, and A Natural History of the Senses. She has also published numerous poetry collections and children’s books.
Akerman attended Pennsylvania State University and earned her Bachelor of Arts in English. She then attended Cornell University where she received her Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and her Ph.D. She would late go on to teach at Cornell University and Columbia. She has published numerous essays in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, Smithsonian, The New Yorker, and National Geographic. In 2015, Diane won the National Outdoor Book Award for The Human Age.
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| On Extended Wings | (1985) |    |
| A Natural History of the Senses | (1990) | |
| The Moon by Whale Light and Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians and Whales | (1991) | |
| A Natural History of Love | (1994) | |
| The Curious Naturalist | (1994) | |
| The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds | (1995) | |
| Monk Seal Hideaway | (1995) | |
| A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis | (1997) | |
| Bats: Shadows in the Night | (1997) | |
| The Book of Love | (1998) | |
| Deep Play | (1999) | |
| Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden | (2001) | |
| Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir | (2002) | |
| An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain | (2004) | |
| The Zookeeper's Wife | (2007) | |
| Dawn Light: Dancing with Cranes and Other Ways to Start the Day | (2009) | |
| One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir | (2011) | |
| The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us | (2014) | |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral[Poems] | (1976) | |
| Wife of Light | (1978) | |
| Lady Faustus | (1983) | |
| Reverse Thunder: A Dramatic Poem | (1988) | |
| Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems | (1991) | |
| I Praise My Destroyer: Poems | (1998) | |
| Origami Bridges: Poems of Psychoanalysis and Fire | (2000) | |
| The Senses of Animals: Poems | (2000) | |
| Animal Sense | (2003) | |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| A Convergence of Birds | (2001) | |
| When The Wild Comes Leaping Up: Personal Encounters With Nature | (2002) | |
| In the Arms of Words: Poems for Disaster Relief | (2005) | |
| Wonder and Other Survival Skills | (2012) | |
If You Like Diane Ackerman Books, You’ll Love…
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story follows two Polish zookeepers, Jan and Antonina, who go on to save hundreds of people from the Nazis after the bombing of their zoo. They would take the refugees and put them in empty animal cages, giving them animal names and calling animals by human names. The zoo came to be known as The House Under a Crazy Star. The story focuses on Antonina’s life as a zookeeper’s wife. The book was later made into a movie starring Jessica Chastain.
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us is Ackerman’s exploration into our human capacity both for destruction and for invention, and the way these duel obsessions will shape the future of our planet. Ackerman explores ways in which the natural and the human world are now completely dependent on one another. She also draws from the scientific fields from nanotechnology to biomimicry.