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David George Haskell
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British and American biologist and writer, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Forest Unseen and other nonfiction exploring ecology and natural history.
Biography
David George Haskell is a British and American biologist and writer. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist in General Nonfiction. In addition to scientific papers, he has written essays, poems, op-eds, and books that explore ecology and the natural world.
His books include The Forest Unseen (Viking Press, Penguin Random House, 2012), The Songs of Trees (Viking Press, Penguin Random House, 2017), Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree (Hachette, 2021), and Sounds Wild and Broken (Viking Press, Penguin Random House, 2022). In 2026, Viking Press published How Flowers Made Our World: The Story of Nature's Revolutionaries.
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Books by David George Haskell
The Forest Unseen
Haskell spent a year visiting a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest, using nearly daily observations to reveal the ecological relationships that bind microbes to mammals and to explain how the ecosystem has cycled over long time scales. Each short chapter begins with a simple observation and expands into the biology and ecology that connect the forest's inhabitants.