Dec 26, 2009

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal | Biography

Eric Schlosser was born in New York City in 1959. He lived in Manhattan during most of his youth but later moved to Los Angeles where his father, Herbert, would become president of the broadcasting company NBC. Schlosser eventually graduated from Princeton with a bachelor’s in U.S. history and from Oxford with a graduate degree in British history. After trying his hand (unsuccessfully) at writing drama and fiction, Schlosser turned to journalism in the 1990s and wound up gaining some challenging assignments from the prestigious magazine Atlantic Monthly. He wrote for other...