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Eric Schlosser

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Eric Schlosser
  • Date of Birth:
    August 17, 1959
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Leo
  • Place of Birth:
    New York City
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American
  • Education:

    Princeton University

    Oxford University

Family

Eric Schlosser
  • Father:
    Herbert Schlosser
  • Spouse:
    Shauna Redford

Career

Eric Schlosser

Trivia

Eric Schlosser
  • In May 2006, Schlosser and his co-author Charles Wilson released a children's book entitled "Chew On This."
  • Schlosser also served as an executive producer on the 2007 film "There Will Be Blood".
  • He is currently at work on a book about the American prison system.
  • Schlosser is known for his bestselling book, "Fast Food Nation", an exposé on the unsanitary and discriminatory practices of the fast food industry.
  • He won the National Magazine Award for reporting for his two-part series “Reefer Madness” and “Marijuana and the Law” (Atlantic Monthly, August and September, 1994), and he won the Sidney Hillman Foundation award for his article, “In the Strawberry Fields” (Atlantic Monthly, November 19,1995).
  • As an aspiring playwright, Schlosser wrote the play "Americans" in 1985.
  • Eric Schlosser is an award-winning American journalist and author known for investigative or muckraking journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness and Chew On This.

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