Career Highlights

• Earned a B.A. in American History from Princeton University and a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford
• After college he unsuccessfully tried his hand at writing plays
• Started his career at The Atlantic Monthly where he gained recognition for his investigative journalism
• His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker
• He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting

Eric Schlosser is an award-winning journalist who graduated with a B.A in American History from Princeton University and a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford. He began his career as an aspiring playwright. His first play was called Americans and dealt with themes of American imperialism in the 20th century. His next play was titled We the People and it focused on the events surrounding the creation of the US Constitution. Schlosser also worked as an investigative journalist for The Atlantic Monthly where he received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting.

Schlosser wrote several investigative books also, his best known being Fast Food Nation which talks about the unsanitary and discriminatory practices of the fast food industry. He also wrote Reefer Madness and Chew on This, a book for younger audiences about the negative aspects of the fast food industry. Schlosser has not only had appearances on television and radio shows, and his work printed in publications such as Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, but he has also addressed the US Congress about risks to the food supply and lectured at universities across the country.

Our Interview

Eric Schlosser joined ThinkTalk host Zack Sherwood for an interview about his career as a writer. He talks about how he got started as an investigative journalist and his advice on writing non-fiction books.