In "January Magazine's" superb interview with Diane Ackerman, you'll find the personality of the author revealed: from her "prose books" to her beginnings as a writer-an excellent look at the poet/travel writer.

New York Times on the Web: Diane Ackerman
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/02/reviews/970302.jennings.html#1

Click here and you'll be able to read a review of Ackerman's A Slender Thread, by Kate Jennings of the online version of the New York Times. Besides this first-rate review, you may access much more on the author: from book reviews of her other works, to four outstanding articles written by the author.