Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman is a senior editor and producer for Homelands Productions. He has reported from the US, Mexico, Canada, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Antarctica, Europe, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle and Far East. His radio pieces have been heard on NPR, Public Radio International, and American Public Media. His writing has appeared in Harper's, New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Orion, Audubon, Mother Jones, Discover, Condé Nast Traveler, Resurgence, and in several anthologies (including The Best American Science Writing 2006). Alan's fifth book is The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He is also the author of An Echo In My Blood (Harcourt, 1999); Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World (Chelsea Green Publishing, 1998); La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986); and We, Immortals (Pocket Books, 1979). He is Laureate Associate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, where he leads an annual field program in international journalism. Alan Weisman has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Colombia, writer-in-residence at the Altos de Chavón Escuela de Arte y Diseño in the Dominican Republic, John Farrar Fellow in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Among his radio awards shared with his Homelands colleagues are a Robert F. Kennedy Citation, the Harry Chapin/World Hunger Year award, and Brazil's Prèmio Nacional de Jornalismo Radiofônico. He has also received a Four Corners Award for Best Nonfiction Book; a Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Feature Story; and a Best of the West Award in Journalism. His book, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, won the 1998 Social Inventions Award from the London-based Global Ideas Bank. He and his wife, sculptor Beckie Kravetz, live in western Massachusetts. Contact Alan Weisman: Alan Weisman PO Box 77 Cummington, MA 01026 Voicemail 1-520-623-8251 Write to Alan Weisman Literary representation: Nicholas Ellison, Inc. 55 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003 1-212-206-6050 Write to Nicholas Ellison Speaking engagements: The Lavin Agency 1-800-265-4870 http://www.thelavinagency.com Write to The Lavin Agency

Selected Works Books The World Without Us An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico Articles Three Planetary Futures Vanity Fair, April 2008 Earth Without People Cartoon Op-ed Mining the Imagination for New Energy The Cocaine Connection Diamonds in the Wild Power Trip The Sacred and Profane Vanishing Forests, Endangered People Radio Chiloé: A Bridge Too Far? Resurrecting the Zápara Laguna Madre Straw Bale Homes in Mexico