Michael Grunwald Author of The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise Journalist, Time Magazine.

MARC Pavilion ~ University Park
Florida International University
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

Michael Grunwald has been a senior correspondent for Time Magazine since July 2007.  He has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, the Society of Environmental Journalists award for in-depth reporting, and many other journalism honors.

After graduating from Harvard College in 1992, Mike worked at The Boston Globe as a local reporter and then a national reporter.  In July 1998, he joined the national staff of The Washington Post, where he served as a Justice Department reporter, New York bureau chief, congressional correspondent, investigative reporter, and Outlook writer. He covered everything from Hillary Clinton’s first Senate campaign to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; he wrote the Post’s lead news story on the September 11 attacks.

In 2006, Simon & Schuster published Mike’s widely acclaimed first book, The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, which was praised as “brilliant” (The Washington Post), “enthralling” (Publishers Weekly), “magnificent” (The Palm Beach Post), and “terrific” (The New York Times). It received the gold medal for non-fiction at the Florida Book Awards.