Eric Schlosser Biography
Eric Matthew Schlosser is a journalist and novelist best known for his investigative reporting. Schlosser began his career as a writer with The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.
Eric Schlosser Age
Eric was born Eric Matthew Schlosser on 17 August 1959, in Manhattan, New York, United States of America. He is 54 years old as of August 2023.
Eric Schlosser Education
Schlosser received an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 1982 after finishing a 148-page senior thesis titled “Academic Freedom During the McCarthy Era: Anti-Communism, Conformity, and Princeton.” Oriel College, Oxford, awarded him a Master of Letters in British Imperial History.
Eric Schlosser Family- Parents
Schlosser was born in New York City, New York, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. His parents are Judith and Herbert Schlosser, a prominent Wall Street lawyer who later switched to broadcasting, finally becoming president of NBC in 1974 and later a vice president of RCA.
Eric Schlosser Wife
He has been married to his wife Shauna Redford, daughter of actor Robert Redford since 1985. The couple has two children.
Eric Schlosser Career
In Boston, Massachusetts, Schlosser began his career as a journalist with The Atlantic Monthly. Within two years of joining the staff, he won two awards for his investigative pieces: the National Magazine Award for his reporting in his two-part series “Reefer Madness” and “Marijuana and the Law” (The Atlantic Monthly, August and September 1994), and the Sidney Hillman Foundation award for his article “In the Strawberry Fields” (The Atlantic Monthly, November 19, 1995). Fast Food Nation (2001) was Schlosser’s exposé on the fast food industry’s filthy and discriminatory practices. Fast Food Nation grew out of a two-part Rolling Stone piece. Schlosser assisted in the adaptation of his novel into a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater.
The film was released on November 19, 2006. Chew On This (2006), co-written with Charles Wilson, is a young-adult adaptation of the book. Fast Food Nation was named the “Best Business Book of the Year” by Fortune in 2001. Reefer Madness, his 2003 book, explores the history and contemporary commerce of marijuana, as well as the American pornography industry and its history. Reefer Madness received positive reviews from William F. Buckley and BusinessWeek. In September 2013, Klausser’s book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety was published. It focuses on the Damascus Titan missile explosion in 1980, which was a non-nuclear explosion of a Titan II missile near Damascus, Arkansas. He is now working on a book about the American prison system.
Eric Schlosser Films
Schlosser appears in an interview for Morgan Spurlock’s Super Size Me DVD, having a one-on-one talk about the fast-food industry with the filmmaker. He did not feature in the movie. Franny Armstrong interviewed him in 2005, and he appears as a feature interviewee in her film McLibel. Food, Inc. (2008) was co-produced by him and Robert Kenner. Schlosser also worked on the 2007 picture There Will Be Blood as a co-executive producer. He was an executive producer for the farmworker documentary Food Chains in 2014, a role he shared with Eva Longoria. They both received James Beard Foundation Awards for their performances. Schlosser was also a co-director on “the bomb,” a multimedia piece that combined an experimental video on nuclear weapons with live music.
Eric Schlosser Net Worth
Eric has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.