Joseph Regenstein, Jr. School of the Chicago Botanic Garden

Richard Manning

Richard Manning is an award-winning environmental author and journalist, with particular interest in the history and future of the American prairie. He is the author of seven books (most recent is Against The Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization), and his articles have been published in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Audubon, and The Bloomsbury Review. He and C. Ford Runge worked on a joint project with World Wildlife Fund and the Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy called the Midwest Commodities and Conservation Initiative.

Manning worked as a journalist, reporter, and editor for more than 15 years, including four years at the Missoulian. In 1995 he was the recipient of a John S. Knight Fellowship from Stanford University. He is a three-time winner of the Seattle Times C.B. Blethen Award for Investigative Journalism, and has also won the Audubon Society Journalism Award and the inaugural Richard J. Margolis Award in 1992. He lives in Lolo, Montana, in a log cabin he built with his wife, a process he documented in his second book.

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