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\nFresh water will be the defining resource of the 21st Century.<\/strong>
\nExperts call it \u201cthe next oil,\u201d and predict water will be the focus of increased tension and great innovation in coming decades.\u00a0 In response, I set out in 2007 to discover how people across the U.S. and around the world are using and abusing water today \u2013 and how they are preparing for what the UN has deemed \u201cthe looming water crisis.\u201d
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\n\u201cPrud\u2019homme offers ample and eloquent warnings of a looming water crisis: intersex fish in Chesapeake\u00a0Bay, the poisoning of water wells in Wisconsin from agricultural runoff, Lake Mead\u2019s record-low\u00a0waterline in Nevada, decaying dams and levees.\u201d \u2013Publishers Weekly<\/em> starred review<\/strong><\/a>
\n[\/et_pb_slide][\/et_pb_slider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” background_color=”#ffffff” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”France” title=”My Life In france” url_new_window=”off” animation=”top” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_icon=”off” font_icon=”h” icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ icon_placement=”top” image=”https:\/\/1b9.16a.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Child_Julia_okladka_My_Life_in_France.jpg” alt=”My Life in France” url=”https:\/\/1b9.16a.myftpupload.com\/books\/my-life-in-france\/”]On November 3, 1948, Julia and Paul Child arrived in Le Havre, France, aboard the\u00a0SS America<\/em>.\u00a0 Julia \u2014 who thought of herself as \u201ca six-foot-two-inch, thirty-six year-old, rather loud and unserious Californian\u201d \u2014 had never been to Europe, didn\u2019t speak much French, and was not a very good cook. As she peered through the fog at the twinkling lights of the harbor, she had no idea what she was looking at.\u00a0\u201cFrance was a misty abstraction for me, a land I had long imagined but had no real sense of.\u201d[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Forewarned” title=”Forewarned” url_new_window=”off” animation=”top” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_icon=”off” font_icon=”\ue01d” icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ icon_placement=”top” url=”https:\/\/1b9.16a.myftpupload.com\/books\/forewarned\/” image=”https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/41FCD6RZ2EL.jpg” alt=”Forewarned”]
\nConsider these two scenarios: (1) Warned of an impending terrorist attack, Americans endure disruptive security measures or simply stay home and hide. By day\u2019s end, it doesn\u2019t matter: A plane carrying a dirty bomb has crashed in Los Angeles, killing tens of thousands of people; (2) After an alert, Americans face strict yet sensible and efficient security, before a suspect is arrested and an attack averted.
\n[\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Cell” title=”The Cell Game” url_new_window=”off” animation=”top” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_icon=”off” font_icon=”v” icon_color=”#a8a8a8″ use_circle=”on” circle_color=”#ffffff” use_circle_border=”on” circle_border_color=”#e0e0e0″ icon_placement=”top” url=”https:\/\/1b9.16a.myftpupload.com\/books\/the-cell-game\/” image=”https:\/\/alexprudhomme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/9780061371837.jpg”]
\nIn 2001 ImClone Systems appeared unstoppable: in May, the company announced stunning results for its \u201crevolutionary\u201d drug; in June, Erbitux was put on a fast-track status by the FDA; and in September, Bristol-Myers Squibb signed an unprecedented $2 billion deal for Erbitux.\u00a0 As ImClone\u2019s fortunes rose, so did Sam Waksal\u2019s.\u00a0 Like a latter-day Jay Gatsby, Waksal had willed himself from humble Midwestern roots into the upper reaches of New York society. The son of Holocaust survivors, he befriended Martha Stewart, dated her daughter Alexis, hosted parties in his SoHo loft featuring Mick Jagger, bought noted paintings from A-list art dealer Larry Gagosian, and had Carl Icahn as a tennis partner and financial backer.
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\nI became a writer the old-fashioned way. In 1985, I embarked on a three month trip to India and Nepal; when I returned to the US, I intended to apply to architecture school, or maybe law school. Only, I didn\u2019t return. My three-month trip extended into a two year journey that took me around the world. Working as a fisherman in Australia, an English teacher and actor in Japan, and as a janitor in Paris, I wrote in journals as I went. It was this experience of talking to a wide range of people and recording my observations on a daily basis that led me to pursue a writing career once I returned to the States.
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Literary agent<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nTina Bennett
\nWilliam Morris Endeavor (WME, New York)
\n1325 Avenue of the Americas
\nNew York, NY, 10019
\nPhone: (212) 903-1100
\nEmail: tbennett@wmeentertainment.com<\/p>\n

Film agent<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ashley Fox
\nWME, Los Angeles
\nPhone: (310) 246-3317
\nEmail: afox@wmeentertainment.com<\/p>\n

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Television agent<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Erin Conroy<\/div>\n

WME, Los Angeles
\nPhone: (310) 859-4000<\/p>\n

Speaking Engagements<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Kathleen Nishimoto
\nWME Speakers, NYC<\/p>\n

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Phone: (212) 903-1376
\nEmail: knishimoto@wmeentertainment.com<\/p>\n

Book Publicists<\/h3>\n

For HYDROFRACKING: What Everyone Needs to Know
\nLauren Hill
\nPublicity, Oxford University Press
\n198 Madison Ave, New York, NY, 10016
\np: 212-726-6113
\nlauren.hill@oup.com
\n 
\nFor THE RIPPLE EFFECT: The Fate of Freshwater in the 21st Century
\nLauren Lavelle
\nSenior Publicist \/ Scribner
\n1230 Ave. of the Americas, 12th Floor
\nNew York, NY 10020
\np: 212.632.4952
\ne: Lauren.Lavelle@simonandschuster.com\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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