Eliza Griswold graduated from
Princeton University in 1995 and studied
creative writing at
Johns Hopkins University. Prior to post-secondary education, she graduated from St. Paul’s School in
Concord, New Hampshire. Griswold has written extensively on the "
war on terror". 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 later murdered Pakistani journalist
Hayatullah Khan, because, as she said, “he followed the story, no matter the personal cost.” 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 Tenth Parallel. She was also a 2012
Guggenheim Fellow. In 2011 in
The New York Times Magazine, 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. In 2015 for
The New York Times Magazine, she wrote about the demise of Christianity in the Mideast. Griswold was a 2014 Ferris Professor at
Princeton University and currently teaches at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at
New York University as a Distinguished Writer in Residence. 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. Griswold won the
2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. In 2020, 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. In 2024, Griswold's next book,
A Circle of Hope: Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church was published by
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. It was longlisted for the
National Book Award for Nonfiction. ==Family==