Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman ( born March 24, 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota ) is an American author and journalist.

His journalistic works were created in numerous countries such as the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. He reported, among others, for Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine and Discover / National Public Radio.

Weisman is a professor of journalism at internalionalem the University of Arizona.

On the basis of the article Earth without people, which was included in the collection " Best American Science Writing 2006", 2007, his book The World Without Us, where he deals with the vision of a world without people. The German translation of Hainer Kober was published by Piper Verlag under the title The World Without Us.

Alan Weisman is married to his second wife, the sculptor Beckie Kravetz and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Works

  • We, Immortals. Pocket Books, 1979.
  • La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, 1986, ISBN 978-0151473151.
  • Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World. Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont 1998, ISBN 978-1890132286.
  • An Echo in My Blood. Harcourt Brace, New York 1999, ISBN 978-0151002917.
  • Lone Star: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Dan Rather. Wiley & Sons, New York 2006, ISBN 978-0471792178.
  • The World without us. Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0312347291 ( German edition: The world without us travel through a unpeopled earth Piper, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3492051323. . ).
  • Countdown. Little Brown, 2013, ( German edition: Countdown - Has the Earth a future Piper, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-492-05431-7? . ).
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