Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman is the author of several books, including "The World Without Us," a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, winner of the Wenjin Book Prize of the National Library of China, and an international bestseller translated in 34 languages. The 15th-anniversary edition was just published by Picador. Weisman's reporting has appeared in Harper's, New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Vanity Fair and Mother Jones. He lives in Massachusetts.