Marc Reisner was staff writer of the Natural Resources Defense Council from 1972 to 1979. In 1979 he received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to investigate water resources in the West. In addition to Cadillac Desert, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award, Reisner is also author of Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Lawrie Mott, and two young daughters.