David George Haskell
Also known as David G. Haskell
British and American biologist and writer; author of The Forest Unseen.
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- David George Haskell is a British and American biologist and writer.
- He taught at the University of the South from 1995 to 2025 and became an adjunct professor at Emory University in 2025.
- The Forest Unseen (2012) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
- He has been a Pulitzer finalist twice.
Key facts
- Education
- BA zoology, Oxford; PhD evolutionary biology, Cornell1
- University of the South
- Professor 1995 to 2025; chair of biology 2004 to 2009; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor 2021 to 2025; then professor emeritus1
- Emory University
- Adjunct professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, from 20251
- Books
- The Forest Unseen (2012); The Songs of Trees (2017); Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree (2021); Sounds Wild and Broken (2022); How Flowers Made Our World (2026)1
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize finalist (2013, The Forest Unseen); National Academies Communication Award (2013); John Burroughs Medal (2018, The Songs of Trees)1
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