- Alan Weisman
Alan Weisman (born
March 24 ,1947 inMinneapolis ) is an American author, professor, and journalist.Education and career
Weisman holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in literature from
Northwestern University . He is Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at theUniversity of Arizona , where he leads an annual field program in international field journalism. He has also taught writing and journalism atPrescott College andWilliams College , and has been aFulbright Scholar inColombia .Work
He has written several books and won numerous international awards for his work in journalism and literature, the most recent being the critically acclaimed "
The World Without Us " which describes a post-human scenario of the planet. Among his other works are "Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World" (1998), winner of the Social Inventions Award from the Global Ideas Bank, "An Echo In My Blood" (1999), "La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico", and "We, Immortals" (1979). His reports onLatin America have appeared in "Harper's ", "The New York Times Magazine ", the "Los Angeles Times " magazine, the "Atlantic Monthly ", "Orion ", "Audubon ", "Mother Jones ", "Discover", "Condé Nast Traveler ", "Resurgence ", and several anthologies, including "The Best American Science Writing 2006".Weisman is also an editor of radio documentaries for Homelands Productions, creating reports for
National Public Radio .Awards and media attention
Among his awards and citations are the Four Corners Award for Best Nonfiction Book, a Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Feature Story, a Best of the West Award in Journalism, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Citation, the Unity Media Award, the Brazilian government's Premio Nacional de Jornalismo Radiofonico, and major grants from
The Ford Foundation , theCorporation for Public Broadcasting , theRockefeller Foundation and theMacArthur Foundation .Weisman appeared as a guest on "
The Daily Show " onAugust 21 ,2007 .Personal life
He lives with his wife,
bronze sculptor Beckie Kravetz, in westernMassachusetts .External links
* [http://www.homelands.org/producers/weisman.html Alan Weisman at Homelands Productions]
* [http://journalism.arizona.edu/people/faculty/weisman.php Alan Weisman's University of Arizona faculty page]
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