Author Bios

Mike Davis is the author of Prisoners of the American Dream (1986), City of Quartz (1990), Late Victorian Holocausts (2001), Planet of Slums (2006) and Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007). He is past recipient of a MacArthur …

Felicity Barringer is national environmental correspondent for the New York Times based in Washington.