The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story Resources

If you're looking for "prose so rich and evocative that one can feel the earth turning beneath one's feet as one reads," then look no further than Diane Ackerman's website. That's how she describes her own writing.

The film stars Jessica Chastain as Antonina. No word yet on who will play the Badger.

One of the weirder bits of Nazi behavior that Ackerman alludes to is their desire to resurrect an extinct species of cow. Here's a moo-ving article that reveals more about that mission.

Although this interview is 95% about The Zookeeper's Wife, the other 5% is about how Diane Ackerman has a reptilian sex pheromone named after her.

Where else will you hear an author call a rabbit a "fat, furry thug"?

In this interview, Ackerman shows her passion for compassion.

Ackerman hopes any Guests from the zoo will contact her and tell her their stories.

The piano song Antonina plays—"Go, go, go to Crete"—comes from Offenbach's opera La belle Hélène. Go, go, go to YouTube and watch it.

Magdalena Gross's sculptures aren't gross at all. They're a little smaller than you might expect, but they're charming nonetheless.

The villa was a save haven from villa-nous activity.