Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and poet. Griswold is currently the Ferris Professor and Director of the Journalism Program at Princeton University. She is also a contributing writer to The New Yorker and formerly a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. She is the author of Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction and the Ridenhour Book Prize in 2019, and which was a 2018 New York Times Notable Book and a Times Critics' Pick. Griswold 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 and a 2016–17 Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, and has been published in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine.