1959년 뉴욕 출생으로 잡지 「애틀랜틱」과 「뉴요커」 등을 중심으로 활동하는 저널리스트이다. 치밀한 기획취재 기사로 높은 평가를 받고 있다. 「애틀랜틱」에 쓴 마리화나 기사로 ‘내셔널 매거진 어워드’를 수상했다. 저서 『패스트푸드의 제국』 은 「뉴욕타임스」 베스트셀러 리스트에 2년 넘게 올라 있었으며 20개국에서 번역 출간되었다. 다른 저서로 『마리화나 광기: 미국 암시장의 섹스와 마약과 값싼 노동력』(한국 번역서 제목은 『불법의 제국』), 공저서 『미래의 식량』이 있다. 그가 좋아하는 음식은 역설적으로 감자튀김, 치즈버거, 초콜릿 셰이크 등이다.

Eric Schlosser, an award-winning journalist, is a correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, the Nation, and The New Yorker, among others. His skills as reporter and journalist have earned him the highest praise in a cross section of industries. He has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting. All three of his books have been national bestsellers. His 2001 book, Fast Food Nation, is assigned reading at universities across the country.Schlosser has addressed the United States House of Representatives and Senate about the risk to the food supply from bioterrorism and has lectured at universities across the country, including his alma mater Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, College of the Holy Cross, and Claremont College. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, which began as an article in Rolling Stone, is a groundbreaking work of investigation and cultural history that changed the way America thinks about the way it eats. Schlosser exposes the role the fast-food industry has played in American society, from the development of urban and rural landscapes, to the changes in the meat packing industry and in workplace conditions for employees, to the impact abroad."Fast Food Nation is investigative journalism of a very high order."Newsday"Exhaustively researched, frighteningly convincing, this book seeks no less than to peel back the smiley-face image that the fast food industry has worn for decades and reveal what lurks behind the Happy Meals, secret sauces, and fries." San Francisco Chronicle"Schlosser is a serious anddiligent reporter, and Fast Food Nation isn't an airy deconstruction but an avalanche of facts and observations as he examines the fast food process from meat to marketing." New York Times Book Review After the success of Fast Food Nation, many called for Schlosser's groundbreaking insight to be shared with young people. Now Schlosser, along with co-writer Charles Wilson, has investigated the subject further, uncovering new facts children need to know. In Chew on This: Everything You Don't Want to Know About Fast Fooda New York Times bestsellerthey share with kids the fascinating and sometimes frightening truth about what lurks between those sesame seed buns, what a chicken "nugget" really is, and how the fast food industry has been feeding off children for generations. Schlosser and Wilson give young readers the information they need to make their own informed decisions about what to buy and what to eat."Chew on This is an unusually lively, accessible book filled with eye-opening material, much of which will be news not only to kids but to adults." Los Angeles Times"Chew on This shows us how to transform our children's lives so they can improve the health of a nation." Dr. Mehmet Oz"Schlosser and Wilson leave readers with a powerful suggestion that 'the solution starts with you.'" Publishers Weekly"Chew on This should be circulated widely among America's youth. And should be commended for the fact that even in the face of such overwhelmingly bad news, it doesn't completely lose its sense of humor." San Francisco ChronicleIn Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, Schlosser investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstaysmarijuana, pornography, and illegal immigrants. Reefer Madness was selected as a Forbes Book Club Pick for 2003. "Schlosser has published a deeply informative and readable book."William F. Buckley, National Review"Schlosser's exhaustive reporting is reminiscent of social realist literature. Journalism schools should make required reading of the excellent endnotes in Reefer Madness."Business Week

웨스트버지니아에서 자랐고 「뉴욕타임스 매거진」과 「뉴요커」 지에서 근무했으며, 지금은 자유기고가로 「뉴욕타임스 매거진」「워싱턴포스트」「이코노미스트」등 여러 신문과 잡지에 기사를 쓰고 있다. 숙부의 목장에서 소떼 모는 일을 도운 경험이 있다. 이 책이 첫 저서이다.