![]() ![]() It was later made into a documentary film series that premiered nationwide on PBS nationwide in 1997 and won a Columbia University/Peabody Award. In 1999, a Modern Library panel of authors and critics ranked it 61st on a list of the 100 most notable English-language works of nonfiction of the 20th century. According to The Guardian, Cadillac Desert illuminated the importance of water conservation in the American West with "the remarkable ability to explain entertainingly the complex, and often numbing, deals and disputes in the 'water wars' that have plagued the west." The book was a finalist for both the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award (BABRA) that same year. ![]() ![]() In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship, which enabled him to conduct research and write Cadillac Desert, which was first published in 1986. Starting in 1972, he worked for seven years as a staff writer and director of communications for the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. Career įor a time he was on the staffs of Environmental Action and the Population Institute in Washington, D.C. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of a lawyer and a scriptwriter, and graduated from Earlham College in 1970. Marc Reisner (Septem– July 21, 2000) was an American environmentalist and writer best known for his book Cadillac Desert, a history of water management in the American West. ![]()
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