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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Boston University |
| Genre | non-fiction |
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He grew up in Washington, D.C., and graduated from Dartmouth College, and Boston University. He was Scripps Fellow in environmental journalism at the University of Colorado, and his 2015 book Rust: The Longest War was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, [1] and won the 2016 Colorado Book Award in the "general non-fiction" category. [2]
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