Alan Weisman

Author of the critically acclaimed New

York Times best seller The World

Without Us, Alan Weisman is an

award-winning journalist whose reports

have appeared in Harper Äôs, the New

York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly,

Discover, and Orion, among others,

and on National Public Radio. A former

contributing editor to the Los Angeles

Times Magazine, he is a senior radio

producer for Homelands Productions

and teaches international journalism at

the University of Arizona. He lives in

western Massachusetts.