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Eliza Griswold

Biography

Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of a collection of poems, WIDEAWAKE FIELD (FSG, 2007), and a nonfiction book, THE TENTH PARALLEL: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (FSG, 2010), a New York Times bestseller that was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. She is the translator of I AM THE BEGGAR OF THE WORLD: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan (FSG, 2015).

Eliza Griswold

Books by Eliza Griswold

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
by Eliza Griswold - Current Affairs, Environment, Nonfiction, Politics

Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks start rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong. Alarmed by her children's illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what's really in the water and air.

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam
by Eliza Griswold