Pulitzer Prize-Winner Elizabeth Kolbert To Speak At Virtual Event

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD — Pulitzer-Prize winning author and New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert is scheduled to speak at the Montgomery County Public Libraries' virtual Contemporary Conversations series March 5.

Kolbert is the author of Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future” and “Field Notes from a Catastrophe," and other books focusing on environmental issues. She'll speak with Adriana Hochberg, climate change officer for Montgomery County and acting director for the Department of Environmental Protection, at the event.

"This is a timely topic since Montgomery County is committed, through its Climate Action Plan, to implement strategies to reduce climate-related risk to its residents, businesses, and the built and natural environments,” said MCPL Director Anita Vassallo in a news release. “We are looking forward to a dynamic conversation between Elizabeth Kolbert and Adriana Hochberg that will engage and inspire residents to collectively continue building a healthy, equitable and resilient community.”

Kolbert has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1999, where she writes about the environment.

Registration is open and required for the conversation on March 5 at 7 p.m.