Eric Schlosser

Eric Schlosser grew up in Los Angeles, in relatively well-to-do circumstances; his father, Herbert Schlosser, was for a time the president of the National Broadcasting Corporation. Schlosser attended Princeton as an undergraduate and Oxford as a graduate student. After his studies, Schlosser wrote and reported for The Atlantic Monthly. His other books include Reefer Madness, about marijuana use and its cultural implications, and Command and Control, about the accidents that can ensue when government personnel handle nuclear bombs. All his books have been critically praised, and Fast Food Nation was named “One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Nonfiction Books.”