Rose George
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 Rose George facts

• She began writing in 1994, as an intern at The Nation magazine in New York City
• Later, she became senior editor and writer at COLORS magazine, the bilingual "global magazine about local cultures" published in eighty countries and based first in Rome, then Paris, then Venice
• In 1999, she moved to London and began a freelance career, and has since written for the Independent on Sunday, Arena, the Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, Details and others
• Along the way, she has been war correspondent in Kosovo for Condé Nast Traveler magazine, and was twice a guest at Saddam Hussein's birthday party
• Until 2010, she was senior editor at large for Tank, a quarterly magazine of fashion, art, reportage and culture based in London
• She has written three non-fiction books
• A Life Removed (Penguin 2004), explores the daily reality of refugees and displaced people in and from Liberia
• The Big Necessity: the Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters (Metropolitan/Portobello 2008), addresses the world's most neglected public health crisis, that of the potentially toxic substance that is untreated human waste
• Nearly half the planet's population lack the basic necessity of a safe, decent latrine and the consequences are deadly: diarrhoea kills more children under 5 than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, or measles, or all those three things put together
• The Big Necessity also travels to the "plumbed and flushed" richer countries of the world, and discovers crumbling infrastructure, water-borne disease and neglect