Eliza Griswold is an American journalist and poet whose work delves into the complexities of the human experience. With a profound understanding and sensitivity to exploring diverse cultures and spiritual landscapes, she often employs her poetic vision to uncover the nuances of contemporary issues. Her writing is characterized by keen observation and evocative language, inviting readers to contemplate the intricate truths of the world around us. Through her journalism and poetry, Griswold strives to build bridges of understanding and illuminate the less-traveled paths of human existence.
A radical mission; a riveting crisis; the future of faith
A Pulitzer Prize winner's intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.
One Family and the Fracturing of America - Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction 2019
Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, Amity and Prosperity is a powerful and beautifully-written story of the energy boom's impact on a small town in the United States - and of one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist
Dispatches From The Fault Line Between Christianity And Islam
A riveting investigation of the jagged fault line between the Christian and Muslim worldsThe tenth parallel€”the line of latitude seven hundred miles north of the equator€”is a geographical and ideological front line where Christianity and Islam collide. More than half of the world€™s 1.3 billion Muslims live along the tenth parallel; so do sixty percent of the world€™s 2 billion Christians. Here, in the buzzing megacities and swarming jungles of Africa and Asia, is where the two religions meet; their encounter is shaping the future of each faith, and of whole societies as well. An award-winning investigative journalist and poet, Eliza Griswold has spent the past seven years traveling between the equator and the tenth in Nigeria, the Sudan, and Somalia, and in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The stories she tells in The Tenth Parallel show us that religious conflicts are also conflicts about land, water,