*McKibben, Bill: - McKibben is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.His books include The End of Nature (Random House), The Age of Missing Information (Random House), The Comforting Whirlwind (Eerdmans) and, most recently, Hope, Human an...

*McKibben, Bill: - McKibben is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.His books include The End of Nature (Random House), The Age of Missing Information (Random House), The Comforting Whirlwind (Eerdmans) and, most recently, Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth * (Little, Brown).