Alan Weisman

Alan Weisman has reported from more than 60 countries and all seven continents for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, Orion, Salon, Vanity Fair, and NPR, among many others. His most recent book is Hope Dies Last, published in 2025 by Dutton/Penguin Random House. His last book, Countdown, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His international bestseller The World Without Us, now in 35 languages, was named Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, winner of the National Library of China’s Wenjin Book Prize, and one of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years by Slate in 2019.

From 2003-2013, Weisman, now Laureate Professor Emeritus of Journalism, led an international journalism program that each year took student reporters to a different Latin American country to cover issues of mutual concern to their citizens and to U.S. audiences.