Nationality American Role Journalist Name Eliza Griswold | Occupation Journalist, Poet | |
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Born February 9, 1973 (age 51) ( 1973-02-09 ) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry Books I Am the Beggar of the World, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatch, Wideawake Field: Poems | ||
Meet journalist eliza griswold for the love of words
Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is an American journalist and poet. She 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. She is a former Nieman Fellow, 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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- Meet journalist eliza griswold for the love of words
- Eliza griswold the tenth parallel the fault line between christianity and islam
- Professional life
- Family
- Books
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Eliza griswold the tenth parallel the fault line between christianity and islam
Professional life
Eliza Griswold graduated from Princeton University in 1995 and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. 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 journalist Hayatullah Khan, who acted as her handler.
Griswold has written widely on the "war on terror".
Griswold published "Wideawake 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 of latitude where Christianity and Islam clash. In 2011 Griswold was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for the The Tenth Parallel. She was a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow.
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. In 2015, for the NYTimes Magazine she wrote about the demise of Christianity in the Mideast.
Griswold was a 2014 Ferris Professor at Princeton University and currently teaches at Columbia University.
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
Family
Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church. Griswold is married to journalist and academic Steve Coll. She was previously married to Christopher Allen.