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12 Facts About Eliza Griswold

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Eliza Griswold 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.

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Eliza 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.

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Eliza Griswold 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.

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Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995 and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.

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Eliza Griswold won the first Robert I Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism in 2004, for "In the Hiding Zone", about Pakistan's Waziristan Agency.

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Eliza Griswold published Wideawake Field, a book of poetry, on May 17,2007.

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In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Tenth Parallel.

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In 2011 in The New York Times Magazine, Eliza 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.

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Eliza Griswold won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.

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In 2020, Eliza 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.

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

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Eliza Griswold is married to journalist and academic Steve Coll.