Elizabeth Royte has written for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker,Outside, Smithsonian, and other national magazines. She usually writes about science and the natural world, which makes Garbage Land, which is mostly about dead things, a real departure for her. The best parts of reporting the book, she says, were sneaking into, and paddling around, landfills. A former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow, Royte is the author of The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2001.

Books by Elizabeth Royte

Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash

by Elizabeth Royte