PEOPLE: ALAN WEISMAN
Alan Weisman
Office - Marshall 323
Telephone - 626-6407
E-mail - weisman@u.arizona.edu
Alan Weisman is a laureate professor of journalism and Latin American Studies. His reports from Latin America have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.
He is the author of The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne Books /St. Martin's Press, 2007), which spent much of 2007 on The New York Times bestseller list and was named Time Magazine's number one non-fiction book of the year. In it, Weisman theorizes what would happen to the planet if humans suddenly vanished.
His other works include An Echo In My Blood (Harcourt Brace, Inc. 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).
Weisman has a bachelor's and a master's degree in literature from Northwestern University. He has taught writing and journalism at Prescott College and Williams College, and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Colombia. His awards include 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.
In collaboration with his colleagues at Homelands Productions, which develops reports for National Public Radio and other news media, Weisman has received 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, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Rockefeller Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.