Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold
Eliza Griswold speaking with Climate One in 2018.
Born	(1973-02-09)February 9, 1973
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation(s)	Journalist, Poet
Father	Frank Griswold

Eliza Griswold(born February 9, 1973) is aPulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and poet. Griswold is currently a contributing writer toThe New Yorkerand a Distinguished Writer in Residence atNew York University.She is the author ofAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America,a 2018New York TimesNotable Book and a Times Critics’ Pick, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and theRidenhour Book Prizein 2019.Griswold was a fellow at theNew America Foundationfrom 2008 to 2010 and won a 2010Rome Prizefrom theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters. She is a formerNieman Fellowand a currentBerggruenFellow atHarvard Divinity School,and has been published inThe New Yorker,Harper's Magazine,and theNew York Times Magazine.

Professional life

Eliza Griswold graduated fromPrinceton Universityin 1995and studiedcreative writingatJohns Hopkins University.Prior to post-secondary education, she graduated from St. Paul’s School inConcord, New Hampshire.

Griswold has written extensively on the "war on terror".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 Pakistani journalistHayatullah Khan,who acted as her handler.

Griswold publishedWideawake Field,a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007. 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 oflatitudewhereChristianityandIslamclash.In 2011 Griswold was awarded theJ. Anthony Lukas Book PrizeforThe Tenth Parallel.She was also a 2012Guggenheim Fellow.

In 2011 inThe New York Times Magazine,Griswold published an investigative report, "The Fracturing of Pennsylvania", which investigated the environmentally-questionable practices offrackingcompanies such asRange Resources,based inTexas.In 2015 forThe New York Times Magazine,she wrote about the demise of Christianity in the Mideast.

Griswold was a 2014 Ferris Professor atPrinceton Universityand currently teaches at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute atNew York Universityas a Distinguished Writer in Residence.

In 2015, Griswold's translation from thePashtoofI Am the Beggar of the World:Landays from Contemporary Afghanistanwon the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Griswold won the2019 Pulitzer Prizefor General Nonfiction for her bookAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.

In 2020, Griswold published her second book of poetry,If Men, Then,which appeared inThe New YorkerandGranta,was profiled by thePoetry Foundation,was listed as New and Noteworthy byThe New York Timesand was one ofVogue's most anticipated books of 2020.

Family

Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Phoebe andFrank Griswold,the 25thPresiding BishopofThe Episcopal Church.She is married to journalist and academicSteve Coll.Steve Coll is former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism atColumbia University,which hosts thePulitzer Prizesand a Pulitzer board member since 2012. She was previously married to Christopher Allen.

Bibliography

Books

• Griswold, Eliza (1997).A night full of low stars.Johns Hopkins University.
• — (2007).Wideawake field: poems.Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 17 August 2010.ISBN978-1-4299-7966-5.
• I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan.Macmillan. 1 April 2014.ISBN978-0374191870.
• Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2018.ISBN9780374103118.
• If Men, Then.Farrar, Strous and Giroux. 2020.ISBN9780374280772
• Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power and Justice in an American Church.Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2024.ISBN9780374601683.

Essays and reporting

• Eliza Griswold (January 23, 2005)."The Next Islamist Revolution?".New York Times Magazine.Retrieved2007-11-26.
• Eliza Griswold (2003-05-05)."The Kurds Take a City".The Nation.Retrieved2010-09-17.
• Eliza Griswold (April 14, 2003)."With the Kurds".The Nation.Retrieved2010-09-17.
• Eliza Griswold (December 2010)."In the Land of Sheba: A Pilgrimage to Ethiopia (series)".Slate.Retrieved2010-12-19.
• Eliza Griswold (November 2011)."The Fracturing of Pennsylvania".New York Times Magazine.Retrieved2024-08-08.
• Eliza Griswold (June 13, 2014)."Can General Linder's Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?".New York Times Magazine.Retrieved2014-09-28.
• Eliza Griswold (July 22, 2015)."Is This the End of Christianity in the Middle East?"New York Times Magazine
• Eliza Griswold (January 20, 2016)."Why is it So Difficult for Syrian Refugees to Get Into the U.S.?"New York Times Magazine
• — (July 3, 2017)."Undermined: a local activist fights for the future of coal country".The Critics. A Critic at Large.The New Yorker.Vol. 93, no. 19. pp. 48–57.
• Eliza Griswold (March 5, 2018)."The Violent Toll of Hindu Nationalism in India"New Yorker
• Eliza Griswold (February 2, 2020).“Richard Rohr Reorders the Universe”New Yorker
• — (November 18, 2019)."Crises of choice: as rural health care flounders, anti-abortion centers are gaining ground".Letter from Indiana.The New Yorker.Vol. 95, no. 36. pp. 30–35.
• Eliza Griswold (October 19, 2019).“Teaching Democrats to Speak Evangelical”New Yorker

External links

• Official website
• "Postcards from Karachi - A Documentary with Guernica: A Magazine of Art and Politics"
• Griswold profile at the New America Foundation
• Smithsonian interview of Griswold
• Video interview/discussion with GriswoldbyRobert WrightonBloggingheads.tv
• Macmillan Speakers Bureau profile