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Fireside Chat with Eliza Griswold
New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author ELIZA GRISWOLD has lived a thousand lives through her journalistic subjects. In this awe-inspiring conversation, Griswold brings our world, politics, and culture to life with remarkable first-hand accounts drawn from her years travelling the world as a writer.
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Literature & the Environmental Issues of the 21st Century
New York Times bestselling author ELIZA GRISWOLD’s inspirational book on Appalachian environmental activism and class tensions, Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Since the publication of Amity and Prosperity, Griswold has become a foremost national voice on literature and the environment. Join Griswold for an educational conversation about how today’s publications will boost tomorrow’s quality of life.
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Cracked Open: Practical Spiritual Steps to Prepare for Change
As a writer about religion and spirituality, ELIZA GRISWOLD leads her audience through multi-denominational stories, poems, and easy-to-use emotional tools to help listeners identify the forms of inner resilience. In this inspiring speech, Griswold helps audiences chart a course for a life they look forward to.
Hopes for Our Future
As one of the most poignant observers of our time, Amity and Prosperity, ELIZA GRISWOLD is often called upon for her assessment of progress. Speaking on the moral imperatives of healing stark domestic divides with objective, bi-partisan commentary, Griswold’s optimistic perspective leaves audiences ready to change the world.
Eliza Griswold connects with audiences at the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books
Drawing on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, ELIZA GRISWOLD led a discussion on environmentalism and literature Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books. After delighting audiences with stories of her travels and writing, Griswold participated in a lively book signing (a line of fans stretched out the door). The director of the Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books said, “Ms. Griswold was one of the first presenters Saturday, drawing a nice audience. She was articulate, polished and engaging.”
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Eliza Griswold’s latest book, ‘If Men, Then,’ is a darkly humorous collection of poems
Pulitzer Prize-winning author ELIZA GRISWOLD charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe in her second poetry collection, If Men, Then. Griswold’s poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a first-person narration wrestling with unfolding poignant tragedy reminiscent of current-day permacrises. Karla Huston of Library Journal said, “[Griswold] writes poems so emotionally charged they seem on the verge of spilling over . . . palpable and provocative poems that can be appreciated by broad audience.”
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Pulitzer Prize winner Eliza Griswold is the voice of a generation
Writer, journalist, and social commentator ELIZA GRISWOLD is popularly known for framing her reporting with an empathetic understanding of her journalistic subjects. The highly-decorated Griswold is more than a pundit; she helps us see ourselves as she tells the stories of our time both in her writing and live events.
Griswold, on top of her longtime tenure as a contributing writer at The New Yorker, has written and translated many critically acclaimed books of nonfiction and poetry. Her translations of Afghan women’s folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book, Amity and Prosperity was named a finalist in the Science/Technology category for the LA Times Festival of Books, the nation’s largest literary and cultural festival. An event with Griswold delivers a gravitas commiserate to her many literary achievements: fellowships at Harvard University, New America, and the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rome Prize by the American Academy of Arts, and more.
Watch Eliza Griswold’s keynote at UMass Boston >>
Watch Eliza Griswold’s keynote and reading at Politics and Prose >>
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.
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