LA Times contributing opinion writer and author of Deep Water: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment and The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia
woodstock, vermont, united states
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Claim your profileFor the last decade and a half I've been writing narrative nonfiction, essays, and articles about the world's most pressing environmental issues. I'm particularly interested in exploring the nexus of geography, politics and environment that has a vast and under-appreciated impact on human history. I've examined this in my book on dams' social and environmental impacts, Deep Water, and in pieces on, for example, global water scarcity and the international environmental impacts of China's growth. Specialties: narrative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction, creative nonfiction) ; short essays and op-eds; water and dams; environmental issues; climate change; infrastructure; foreign reporting.






Bachelor Of Arts, American Studies at Yale UniversityGraduated: 1968