Marc Reisner
Categories: 1948 births | 2000 deaths | American writers | California writers
Marc Reisner (1948 - July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his groundbreaking book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West.
He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated from Earlham College. He then worked as a staff writer and director of communications for the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which enabled him to focus on research and writing for Cadillac Desert, which was first published in 1986.
He went to write additional books and helped developed a PBS documentary on the subject of water management.
Reisner died of cancer in 2000 at his home in San Anselmo, California.
Books
- Cadillac Desert (1986, revised 1993)
- Overtapped Oasis: Reform or Revolution for Western Water (with Sarah Bates) (1990)
- Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers (1992)
- A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate (Images of America) (2003)