Eliza Griswold

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  • Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of 'Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America'
  • Poet and New York Times Bestselling Author
  • Writer for The New Yorker on Politics, Religion, and the Environment

Eliza Griswold is a writer who reports on issues of social justice, religion, politics and the environment abroad and at home in America. A contributing writer for The New Yorker since 2003, she has also written and translated five books of nonfiction and poetry.

Griswold was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.

She was recently awarded a PEN prize for her 2014 book, I Am The Beggar of the World which traces the secret life of women and poetry in Afghanistan. Her 2011 non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel, a New York Times Bestseller, was awarded the Lukas Prize. 

A graduate of Princeton, she has held fellowships at Harvard University, New America, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010. Her poems and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Atlantic, among many others. 

 



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Past Hosts Include:
  • Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books
  • UMass Boston
  • Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
  • Yale ISM
  • TEDxColumbiaSIPA
Rave Reviews About Eliza Griswold as a Speaker
Ms. Griswold was one of the first presenters Saturday, drawing a nice audience. She was articulate, polished and engaging. Our first festival was an unqualified success boosted by such excellent speakers as Griswold.

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Cracked Open: Practical Spiritual Steps to Prepare for Returning to Life and Work Post-Pandemic

As a writer about religion and spirituality, ELIZA GRISWOLD will lead her audience through an inspiring speech on how to prepare in practical ways for a world reopening post-pandemic. Through the use of stories, poems, and easy-to-use emotional tools, she will help listeners identify the forms of in ...

As a writer about religion and spirituality, ELIZA GRISWOLD will lead her audience through an inspiring speech on how to prepare in practical ways for a world reopening post-pandemic. Through the use of stories, poems, and easy-to-use emotional tools, she will help listeners identify the forms of inner resilience they've come to rely on, and chart a course for a life they look forward to in 2021 and beyond. 

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<p>Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Eliza Griswold lends her sharp New Yorker commentary to her virtual engagements, and her journalistic storytelling brings the insights home</p>

Pulitzer Prize-Winning journalist Eliza Griswold lends her sharp New Yorker commentary to her virtual engagements, and her journalistic storytelling brings the insights home

Writer, journalist and social commentator ELIZA GRISWOLD won the Pulitzer Prize for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, and writes on religion, politics, and the environment for The New Yorker. She frames her reporting in an empathetic understanding of the people in the story, for example deeply listening to the voters in the swing states, as she recently reported on the Politics and More podcast. She offers more than a pundit; she helps us see ourselves as she tells the stories of our time, as exemplified in her profile appearance on Now That's a Great StoryAn event with Eliza delivers the gravitas for meaningful conversation and insights- after all, she is a Pulitzer Prize winner with fellowships at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the New America Foundation, among others. And her journalistic storytelling brings the insights home.

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Eliza Griswold awarded a Pulitzer Prize

New Yorker writer ELIZA GRISWOLD was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of AmericaA classic American story, grippingly told, of an Appalachian family struggling to retain its middle class status in the shadow of destruction wreaked by corporate fracking, Amity and Prosperity tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist. Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.

Heralded for following the stories that need to be told, Griswold's work explores issues of social justice, religion, politics and the environment, abroad and at home in America, with tremendous detail, humanity and insight. Griswold's reporting on water, fracking and human health became the subject of her TEDxColumbiaSIPA TEDTalk. She was previously awarded a prestigious PEN prize for her book, I Am the Beggar of the World, which traces the secret life of women and poetry in Afghanistan. Her earlier non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel-- a New York Times Bestseller that was awarded the Lukas Prize-- is a riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worlds.

In conversations that are equal parts informative and awe-inspiring, Griswold brings our world, politics and culture to life with remarkable first-hand accounts drawn from her years travelling the world as a writer and journalist. 

 

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Eliza Griswold is a poet and journalist who works on issues of social justice, religion, politics and the environment abroad and at home in America. A contributing writer for The New Yorker since 2003, she has also written and translated four books of nonfiction and poetry.

Griswold was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.

She was recently awarded a PEN prize for her 2014 book, I Am The Beggar of the World which traces the secret life of women and poetry in Afghanistan. Her 2011 non-fiction book, The Tenth Parallel, a New York Times Bestseller, was awarded the Lukas Prize. 

A graduate of Princeton, she has held fellowships at Harvard University, New America, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and was awarded the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2010. Her poems and reportage have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Atlantic, among many others.