David George Haskell is a biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His books have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, in 2012 for The Forest Unseen and in 2022 for Sounds Wild and Broken. His 2017 book, The Songs of Trees, won the John Burroughs Medal. Other literary honors include an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; two PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award finalist nominations; the Acoustical Society of America’s Science Communication Award; and many more. He is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim Fellow, and an adjunct professor of environmental sciences at Emory University. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.