David George Haskell is a writer and a biologist. His latest book, Sounds Wild and Broken, explores the story of sound on Earth, illuminating and celebrating the emergence, diversification, and loss of the world’s sounds. His 2012 book The Forest Unseen was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Academies’ Best Book Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is a professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.