Michael Grunwald

Michael Grunwald is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author who has written about U.S. public policy and politics for three decades. He is best known for his coverage of climate change and the environment. His latest book, We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate, is a groundbreaking piece of reportage on the fight to fix our food system. In the book, Grunwald argues that humanity has started to recognize the magnitude of its food and climate problem and is making it worse; it is also a hopeful account of the brilliant researchers and entrepreneurs devising new ways to produce more food with less impact. This reporting in We Are Eating the Earth will inform his remarks to continue Chautauqua’s week on “The Future of Food.” Grunwald is a New York Times contributing opinions writer and former staff writer for The Washington Post, Time and Politico Magazine. He is also the author of The Swamp, a widely acclaimed book about the Everglades, and The New New Deal, about the Obama Administration’s economic policies. Grunwald wrote The Washington Post’s lead news story about the attacks of September 11, 2001, covered the last eight presidential campaigns, and has written cover stories about everything from the failure of U.S. transportation policy to the marketing of Barack Obama to his own family’s daily reliance on the power of government. Grunwald has won numerous honors for his work, including the George Polk Award for national reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting.