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Eliza Griswold

{{Short description|American writer}}

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| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Princeton University

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Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and poet. Griswold is currently a contributing writer to The New Yorker and a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. She is the author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Ridenhour Book Prize in 2019, and which was a 2018 New York Times Notable Book and a Times Critics' Pick.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/eliza-griswold|title=Eliza Griswold|magazine=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2020-02-12}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ridenhour.org/prizes_book_2019.html|title=The Ridenhour Prizes - Fostering the spirit of courage and truth|website=www.ridenhour.org|access-date=2020-02-12}} Griswold was a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2008 to 2010 and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.{{cite web

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| date=2006–2007

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She is a former Nieman Fellow and a current Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.

Professional life

Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995{{Cite web |title=Princeton Alumni Weekly |url=https://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/plus/plus_060607summerread.html |access-date=2023-11-02 |website=www.princeton.edu}} and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to post-secondary education, she graduated from St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire.

Griswold has written extensively on the "war on terror".{{cite news|author=Amy Crawford|author-link=Amy Crawford (journalist)|date=December 1, 2006|title=An interview with Eliza Griswold, author of "Waging Peace in the Philippines"|publisher=Smithsonian magazine|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/philippines_author.html|url-status=dead|access-date=2007-11-26|archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090927173632/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/philippines_author.html|archive-date=September 27, 2009}} She won the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism in 2004, for "In the Hiding Zone", about Pakistan's Waziristan Agency. She worked with later murdered Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan, because, as she said, “he followed the story, no matter the personal cost.”{{cite news|last=Dietz|first=Bob|title=The Last Story: Hayatullah Khan|url=http://cpj.org/reports/2006/09/khan.php|access-date=11 October 2011|newspaper=Committee to Protect Journalists|date=September 20, 2006}}

Griswold published Wideawake Field, a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007.[http://us.macmillan.com/wideawakefield Wideawake Field]. Macmillan.{{cite book|author=Eliza Griswold|title=Wideawake Field|date=May 17, 2007|publisher=Farrar Straus & Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-29930-9}}{{cite news| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=180211|title=It's Not Enough to Feel This| publisher=The Poetry Foundation|author=Jessica Winter|author-link=Jessica Winter|access-date=2007-11-23}}

A second book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, is a travelogue about the regions of the world along the line of latitude where Christianity and Islam clash.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Robinson-t.html|work=The New York Times|title=Book Review - The Tenth Parallel - By Eliza Griswold|first=Linda|last=Robinson|date=2010-08-19}} In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Tenth Parallel.{{cite web |title=Columbia, Nieman Foundation announce winners of the 2011 Lukas Prize Project |url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/newsitem.aspx?id=100162 |publisher=Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard |access-date=1 April 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710085903/http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/newsitem.aspx?id=100162 |archive-date=10 July 2011 }} She was also a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.[http://www.gf.org/fellows/17224-eliza-griswold "Eliza Grizwold"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921143848/http://www.gf.org/fellows/17224-eliza-griswold |date=2013-09-21 }}. Guggenheim Foundation.

In 2011 in The New York Times Magazine, Griswold published an investigative report, "The Fracturing of Pennsylvania", which investigated the environmentally-questionable practices of fracking companies such as Range Resources, based in Texas. In 2015 for The New York Times Magazine, she wrote about the demise of Christianity in the Mideast.{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/is-this-the-end-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east.html|title = Is this the end of christianity in the middle east| work=The New York Times | date=22 July 2015 | last1=Griswold | first1=Eliza }}

Griswold was a 2014 Ferris Professor at Princeton University and currently teaches at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University as a Distinguished Writer in Residence.{{Cite web|title=Eliza Griswold|url=https://journalism.nyu.edu/about-us/profile/eliza-griswold/|access-date=2020-10-14|website=NYU Journalism|language=en-US}}

In 2015, Griswold's translation from the Pashto of I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.{{cite web|url=https://pen.org/announcing-the-2015-pen-literary-award-winners/|title=Announcing the 2015 PEN Literary Award Winners|date=8 May 2015}}

Griswold won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/eliza-griswold|title=Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) - The Pulitzer Prizes|date=19 April 2019}}

In 2020, Griswold published her second book of poetry, If Men, Then, which appeared in The New Yorker and Granta, was profiled by the Poetry Foundation, was listed as New and Noteworthy by The New York Times and was one of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/most-anticipated-books-2020|title=The 41 Most Anticipated Books of 2020|last=Specter|first=Emma|website=Vogue|date=17 December 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-02-12}}

In 2024, Griswold's next book, A Circle of Hope: Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.{{cite news |last1=French |first1=David |title=The Church Preached Love and Tolerance. Then Racial Politics Tore It Apart. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/books/review/circle-of-hope-eliza-griswold.html |access-date=13 September 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=5 August 2024}} It was longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.{{cite magazine |title=The 2024 National Book Awards Longlist |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/2024-national-book-awards-longlist |access-date=13 September 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=12 September 2024}}

Family

Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Phoebe and Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.{{Citation

| last = Fox

| first = Neva Rae

| title = BOOKS & CULTURE: A Compassionate Look at a Church's Collapse

| journal = The Living Church

| volume = 268

| issue = 1

| page = 37

| date = January 12, 2025

| quote = Her father was the 25th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, the late Frank T. Griswold.}} She is married to journalist and academic Steve Coll.{{cite web|title=Steve Coll|url=https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/steve-coll|website=Columbia Journalism School|publisher=Columbia University|access-date=24 July 2017}} Steve Coll is former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, which hosts the Pulitzer Prizes and a Pulitzer board member since 2012. She was previously married to Christopher Allen.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/09/style/weddings-eliza-griswold-christopher-allen.html | work=The New York Times | title=WEDDINGS;Eliza Griswold, Christopher Allen | date=1996-06-09}}

Bibliography

{{Expand list|date=June 2018}}

=Books=

  • {{cite book |author=Griswold, Eliza |title=A night full of low stars |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |year=1997 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Griswold, Eliza |author-mask=1 |title=Wideawake field : poems |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2007 }}
  • {{cite book|title=The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xqa9U42GP2cC|date=17 August 2010|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-7966-5}}
  • {{cite book|title=I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6HgOBAAAQBAJ|date=1 April 2014|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-0374191870}}
  • {{cite book |title=Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America |date=2018 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9780374103118 |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374103118}}
  • If Men, Then. Farrar, Strous and Giroux. 2020. {{ISBN|9780374280772}}
  • {{cite book |title=Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church |date=2024 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=9780374601683}}

=Essays and reporting=

  • {{cite news

| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EFD71238F930A15752C0A9639C8B63

| title=The Next Islamist Revolution?

| work=New York Times Magazine

| author=Eliza Griswold

| date=January 23, 2005

| access-date=2007-11-26

}}

  • {{cite news

| url=http://www.thenation.com/authors/eliza-griswold

| title=The Kurds Take a City

| publisher=The Nation

| author=Eliza Griswold

| date=2003-05-05

| access-date=2010-09-17

}}

  • {{cite news

| url=http://www.thenation.com/article/kurds

| title=With the Kurds

| publisher=The Nation

| author=Eliza Griswold

| date=April 14, 2003

| access-date=2010-09-17

}}

  • {{cite news

| url=http://www.slate.com/id/2277531/entry/2277585/

| title=In the Land of Sheba: A Pilgrimage to Ethiopia (series)

| publisher=Slate

| author=Eliza Griswold

| date=December 2010

| access-date=2010-12-19

}}

  • {{cite news

| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html?pagewanted=all

| title=The Fracturing of Pennsylvania

| work=New York Times Magazine

| author=Eliza Griswold

| date=November 2011

| access-date=2024-08-08

}}

  • {{cite news

| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/magazine/can-general-linders-special-operations-forces-stop-the-next-terrorist-threat.html?_r=0

| title=Can General Linder's Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?

| work=New York Times Magazine

| author=Eliza Griswold

| date=June 13, 2014

| access-date=2014-09-28

}}

  • Eliza Griswold (July 22, 2015). [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/magazine/is-this-the-end-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east.html "Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?"] New York Times Magazine
  • Eliza Griswold (January 20, 2016). [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/magazine/why-is-it-so-difficult-for-syrian-refugees-to-get-into-the-us.html "Why is it So Difficult for Syrian Refugees to Get Into the U.S.?"] New York Times Magazine
  • {{cite magazine |author=Griswold, Eliza |author-mask=1 |date=July 3, 2017 |title=Undermined : a local activist fights for the future of coal country |department=The Critics. A Critic at Large |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=93 |issue=19 |pages=48–57 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/03/the-future-of-coal-country }}Online version is titled "The future of coal country".
  • Eliza Griswold (March 5, 2018). [https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/the-violent-toll-of-hindu-nationalism-in-india "The Violent Toll of Hindu Nationalism in India"] New Yorker
  • Eliza Griswold (February 2, 2020). [https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/richard-rohr-reorders-the-universe “Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe”] New Yorker
  • {{cite magazine |author=Griswold, Eliza |author-mask=1 |date=November 18, 2019 |title=Crises of choice : as rural health care flounders, anti-abortion centers are gaining ground |department=Letter from Indiana |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=95 |issue=36 |pages=30–35 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/11/18/the-new-front-line-of-the-anti-abortion-movement }}Online version is titled "The new front line of the anti-abortion movement".
  • Eliza Griswold (October 19, 2019). [https://www.newyorker.com/news/on-religion/teaching-democrats-to-speak-evangelical “Teaching Democrats to Speak Evangelical”] New Yorker

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External links

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  • {{Official|https://www.elizagriswoldauthor.com}}
  • [http://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/griswold_devineni_10_15_11/ "Postcards from Karachi - A Documentary with Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics"]
  • [http://www.newamerica.net/people/eliza_griswold Griswold profile at the New America Foundation]
  • [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/10023216.html Smithsonian interview of Griswold]
  • [http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/333 Video interview/discussion with Griswold] by Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv
  • [http://www.macmillanspeakers.com/elizagriswold Macmillan Speakers Bureau profile]

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