Michael Grunwald is the best-selling author of “We Are Eating the Earth: The Race to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate” (Simon & Schuster, 2025). The book centers on agricultural land use and how to sustainably feed the world’s growing population without running out of space. It was recently named a finalist for the New York Public Library’s 39th annual Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Grunwald is also the author of two more critically acclaimed books, “The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise” (Simon & Schuster, 2006), which was adapted for a PBS documentary, and “The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era” (Simon & Schuster, 2012), which spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
Grunwald has won the George Polk Award for national reporting, the Worth Bingham Prize for investigative reporting, and many other journalism honors. After growing up on Long Island and graduating from Harvard College, Mike was a staff writer for The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine and POLITICO. His focus is on government policy, especially climate and environmental policy, as well as presidential politics.
