Eliza Griswold

Author and Journalist

Eliza Griswold is an author and an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

Griswold was previosly a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2008 to 2010. She is also a former Nieman Fellow and she won the 2010 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[

Griswold's books include I Am the Beggar of the World, The Tenth Parallel, and Wideawake Field. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, The New Republic, and many other publications.

Featured Work

The Tenth Parallel:  Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam

SEP 27, 2010 Podcast

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line between Christianity and Islam

More than half of the world's Muslims and Christians live along the tenth parallel in Africa or in Asia. How do these two great intersecting ...