Jacques Leslie writes narrative nonfiction about the world's most pressing environmental problems.

His 2005 book, DEEP WATER: The Epic Struggle Over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award and was named one of the top science books of the year by Discover Magazine.

A former Los Angeles Times Vietnam War correspondent, he has won numerous literary and journalism awards including the Drunken Boat Panliterary Award in nonfiction, the Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for foreign correspondence, and an Overseas Press Club citation. He is currently a finalist for the Society of Environmental Journalists award for outstanding explanatory print reporting for his Jan/Feb 2008 Mother Jones cover story, "The Last Empire: Can the world survive China's rush to emulate the American way of life?"