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Vince Beiser

Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist. His book on the deadly global war for the world's most overlooked resource, "The World in a Grain," will be published in August 2018.

Vince's book for Penguin-Random House about the deadly global war for sand—the world’s most important yet most overlooked commodity—will be published in August 2018. Vince has exposed conditions in California's harshest prisons, trained with troops bound for Iraq, ridden with the first responders to disasters in Haiti and Nepal and hunted down other stories from around the world for publications including Wired, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The New Republic, The Nation, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone and The New York Times. Vince's work has been honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Columbia, Medill and Missouri Graduate Schools of Journalism, the National Mental Health Association, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and many other institutions. He has also twice been part of a team that won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence, the magazine industry's highest honor.