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Mark Hertsgaard is a journalist, broadcaster and author whose books have been translated into sixteen languages. He is the author most recently of HOT: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Previous books include Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future (1999), A Day In The Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (1995) and On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988).

Hertsgaard has contributed journalism to leading media outlets the world over, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, Die Zeit, the BBC, and NPR. In the U.S., he has been a commentator for the public radio programs “Morning Edition,” “Living on Earth” and “Marketplace.” He is now the environment correspondent for The Nation and a columnist for the Italian newsweekly L’espresso.

Hertsgaard has appeared on countless television and radio programs both here and abroad, taught writing at Johns Hopkins University and the University of California at Berkeley School of Journalism and guest lectured at many colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Princeton. He lives in San Francisco with his daughter.

Established in 2005, the Book One Program chooses texts based on their excellence and suitability for promoting interdisciplinary conversations about the intersection of cultures. Previous selections include Emmanuel Dongala’s Little Boys Come from the Stars, Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, and Rita Dove's Sonata Mulattica.