Eric Schlosser (born August 17, 1969) is an American journalist and author known for investigative or muckraking journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This. A number of critics have compared his work to the books and essays of Upton Sinclair .
Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New York; he spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California. His father, Herbert Schlosser, a former Wall Street lawyer who...
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Eric Schlosser (born August 17, 1969) is an American journalist and author known for investigative or muckraking journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This. A number of critics have compared his work to the books and essays of Upton Sinclair .
Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New York; he spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California. His father, Herbert Schlosser, a former Wall Street lawyer who turned to broadcasting later in his career, eventually became the President of NBC in 1974. Schlosser studied American History at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford.
Schlosser lives in California, and is working on a book about the prison system. He is married to Shauna Redford, daughter of Robert Redford, and has two children.
As an aspiring playwright, Schlosser wrote the play Americans in 1985. It deals with the theme of American imperialism at the beginning of the 20th century, and...
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