Eliza Griswold is an author, poet and journalist at The New Yorker. Her most recent book is Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America. Griswold is currently a Berggruen Fellow at Harvard Divinity School and is a former fellow at the New America Foundation, a former Nieman Fellow and a recipient of the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has contributed to The Nation, Harper’s Magazine and the New York Times Magazine, often covering people through politics and religion.

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