David George Haskell ’s work integrates scientific, literary, and contemplative studies of the natural world. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and formerly William R. Kenan professor of biology and environmental studies at the University of the South. His most recent work, Sounds Wild and Broken, was a Finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize and the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and won the Acoustical Society of America's 2023 Science Communication Award. His previous book, The Songs of Trees, won the John Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing, and his first book, The Forest Unseen, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and won the 2013 Best Book Award from the National Academies, the National Outdoor Book Award, and the Reed Environmental Writing Award.