April 15, 2019
Eliza Griswold won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.
Ms. Griswold, 46, observed one family in Amity, Penn., over seven years for this book about how hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, affected the town. “What Griswold depicts is a community, like the earth, cracked open,” our reviewer wrote. “Every book takes a village, that’s the nature of books, but this one took two,” said Ms. Griswold, adding that she felt “deeply grateful” to the people of Amity.