About the Author:
Greg Critser was born in Steubenville, Ohio, and raised in Whittier, California. He received his BA in History at Occidental College, in Los Angeles, and his MA from UCLA. His biographical research about the California author and social activist Carey McWilliams has appeared in the AHA's Pacific Historical Review and the UCLA Historical Journal. Greg has worked as a senior assigning editor at four magazines: California Business, California (formerly Far West), Buzz, where he edited an award-winning stable of young Los Angeles writers, and Worth, where he was responsible for the magazine's first National Magazine Award nomination in public interest journalism. Himself a leading journalist on health and obesity, Greg's work has appeared in Harper's, The Washington Post Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Monthly, The New Yorker, and Worth. His highly acclaimed book, Fat Land:How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2003. He lives in Pasadena, California.
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