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Elizabeth Royte is an American science/nature writer. She is best known for her books Garbage Land (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2005), The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2001), and Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It.

Royte's articles have appeared in the The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and other magazines. The publication Best American Science Writing 2004 has featured her work. Her article about women who survived the genocide in Rwanda attracted a good deal of attention. She has traveled throughout the world to research her articles and books.

Royte began her career as an intern at The Nation. She did freelance copy editing and writing for other magazines.

Royte lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their daughter. Her brother is an ecologist. Her uncle is theater director/producer Robert Kalfin.
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Total Books: 9
Bottlemania How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
2009 - Bottlemania How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781596913721
ISBN-10: 159691372X
Genres: Business & Money, Cookbooks, Food & Wine, Science & Math
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 6

Bottlemania How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
2008 - Bottlemania How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781596913714
ISBN-10: 1596913711
Genres: Business & Money, Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 8

Bottlemania How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
2008 - Bottlemania How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781607513827
ISBN-10: 160751382X
Genre: Nonfiction
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 6

Garbage Land  On the Secret Trail of Trash
2006 - Garbage Land on the Secret Trail of Trash (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780316154611
ISBN-10: 031615461X
Genres: Nonfiction, Science & Math, Engineering & Transportation, Outdoors & Nature
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
 11

Garbage Land  On the Secret Trail of Trash
2005 - Garbage Land on the Secret Trail of Trash (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780316738262
ISBN-10: 0316738263
Genres: Nonfiction, Outdoors & Nature
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 12

Garbage Land
2005 - Garbage Land (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780739464298
ISBN-10: 0739464299
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 13

The Tapir's Morning Bath Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest
The Tapir's Morning Bath Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them