Michael Meyer (travel writer)
Introduction '''Michael Meyer ''' (), an American travel writer and the author of ''The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground up;'' ''In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China;'' and ''The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed''. He graduated from University of Wisconsin–Madison. He first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. Following Peace Corps, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied writing under Adam Hochschild and Maxine Hong Kingston.His work has appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''Time'', ''Smithsonian'', the ''New York Times Book Review'', the ''Financial Times'', ''Reader’s Digest'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', ''The Iowa Review'', and on ''This American Life''.In China, he has represented the National Geographic Society’s Center for Sustainable Destinations, training China’s UNESCO World Heritage Site managers in preservation practices.He divides his year between London and Pittsburgh, where he is a Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching nonfiction writing. He is an avid long distance runner.After a five-year clearance delay, his book ''The Last Days of Old Beijing'' was published in mainland China.
Awards *2017 Lowell Thomas Award winner for Best Travel Book*2016-17 National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar award*2015 Lowell Thomas Award winner for Best Travel Book*2014 Fellow, National Committee on US-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program *2011 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center residency*2010 Guggenheim Fellowship*2010 Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library*2009 Whiting Award*2005 Lowell Thomas Award winner for excellence in travel writing
Works * ===Books===*  ( book interview)*  ( book interview and  book talk)*
References
External links * "Author's website"* Profile at The Whiting Foundation** "Michael Meyer living in his Dazhalan Beijing hutong", ''British Television - Paul Merton''