Alan H. Weisman is an American author, professor, and journalist. Weisman holds both a bachelor's and master's degree in literature from Northwestern University. He is Laureate Professor in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, where he leads an annual field program in international field journalism. He has also taught writing and journalism at Prescott College and Williams College and has been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia. He has written several books and won numerous international awards for his work in journalism and literature, the most recent being the... critically acclaimed The World Without Us, which describes a post-human scenario of the planet. Among his other works are Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World , winner of the Social Inventions Award from the Global Ideas Bank, An Echo In My Blood , La Frontera: The United States Border With Mexico, and We, Immortals .
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