Background
Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New New York He spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California.
Schlosser was born in Manhattan, New New York He spent his childhood there and in Los Angeles, California.
Schlosser studied American History at Princeton University and earned a graduate degree in British Imperial History from Oxford.
He tried playwriting, and wrote two plays, Americans (1985) and We the People (2007). Journalism and books Schlosser started his career as a journalist with The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts. Schlosser wrote Fast Food Nation, an exposé on the unsanitary and discriminatory practices of the fast food industry.
Fast Food Nation evolved from a two-part article in Rolling Stone.
Schlosser helped adapt his book into a 2006 film directed by Richard Linklater. The film opened November 19, 2006.
Chew On This (2006), co-written with Charles Wilson, is an adaptation of the book for younger readers. Fortune called Fast Food Nation the "Best Business Book of the Year" in 2001.
His 2003 book Reefer Madness discusses the history and current trade of marijuana, the use of migrant workers in California strawberry fields, and the American pornography industry and its history.
William F. Buckley gave Reefer Madness a favorable review, as did BusinessWeek. Schlosser"s book Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety was published in September 2013. lieutenant focuses on the Damascus Titan missile explosion, a non-nuclear explosion of a Titan II missile in 1980.
The New Yorker""s Louis Menand called it "excellent" and "hair-raising" and said that "Command and Control is how nonfiction should be written." The book was also praised by science historian Steven Shapin in London Review of Books.
He has been working on a book on the American prison system, which has been nearly 10 years in the making.
He quickly gained recognition for his investigative pieces, earning two awards within two years of joining the staff 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). lieutenant was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History.
