Eliza Griswold
Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is an award-winning American journalist and poet. She is a fellow at the New America Foundation and won a 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1] She is a former Nieman Fellow, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.
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[edit] Life and work
Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995[2] and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University.[3] She won the first Robert I. Friedman Prize in Investigative Journalism in 2004, for "In the Hiding Zone", about Pakistan's Waziristan Agency.[4][5] She worked with Pakistani journalist Hayatullah Khan, who acted as her handler.[6]
Griswold has written widely on the "war on terror".[7]
Griswold published "Wideawake Field", a book of poetry, on May 17, 2007.[8][9][10] 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.[11] In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the The Tenth Parallel. [12]
In 2011 in the New York Times Magazine, she published an investigative report, The Fracturing of Pennsylvania, which investigated the environmentally-questionable practices of fracking companies such as Range Resources.
[edit] Family
Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. She married Christopher Allen on June 8, 1996.[3]
[edit] Publications
[edit] Books
- The Tenth Parallel (2010)
- Wideawake Field (2007)
[edit] Articles
- Eliza Griswold (January 23, 2005). "The Next Islamist Revolution?". New York Times Magazine. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02EFD71238F930A15752C0A9639C8B63. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
- Eliza Griswold (2003-05-05). "The Kurds Take a City". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/authors/eliza-griswold. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- Eliza Griswold (April 14, 2003). "With the Kurds". The Nation. http://www.thenation.com/article/kurds. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
- Eliza Griswold (December, 2010). "In the Land of Sheba: A Pilgrimage to Ethiopia (series)". Slate. http://www.slate.com/id/2277531/entry/2277585/. Retrieved 2010-12-19.
- Eliza Griswold (November 2011). "The Fracturing of Pennsylvania". New York Times Magazine. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/fracking-amwell-township.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
[edit] References
- ^ "Career Planning for CMES AM Students". Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. 2006-2007. http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/audience/students/am/career. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
- ^ http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/plus/plus_060607summerread.html
- ^ a b "WEDDINGS;Eliza Griswold, Christopher Allen". The New York Times. 1996-06-09. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/09/style/weddings-eliza-griswold-christopher-allen.html.
- ^ "Fund for Investigative Journalism". http://fij.org/. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
- ^ Eliza Griswold (July 26, 2004). "In the Hiding Zone: Pakistan’s lawless tribal borderland has become a virtual jihadi highway". New Yorker magazine. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/07/26/040726fa_fact2?printable=true. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ Dietz, Bob (September 20, 2006). "The Last Story: Hayatullah Khan". Committee to Protect Journalists. http://cpj.org/reports/2006/09/khan.php. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
- ^ Amy Crawford[disambiguation needed
] (December 1, 2006). "An interview with Eliza Griswold, author of "Waging Peace in the Philippines"". Smithsonian magazine. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/philippines_author.html. Retrieved 2007-11-26. - ^ http://us.macmillan.com/wideawakefield
- ^ Eliza Griswold (May 17, 2007). Wideawake Field. Farrar Straus & Giroux. ISBN 9780374299309.
- ^ Jessica Winter. "It’s Not Enough to Feel This". The Poetry Foundation. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/feature.html?id=180211. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ Robinson, Linda (2010-08-19). "Book Review - The Tenth Parallel - By Eliza Griswold". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Robinson-t.html.
- ^ "Columbia, Nieman Foundation announce winners of the 2011 Lukas Prize Project". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/newsitem.aspx?id=100162. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- Griswold profile at the New America Foundation
- Smithsonian interview of Griswold
- Video interview/discussion with Griswold by Robert Wright on Bloggingheads.tv
- Macmillan Speakers Bureau profile
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