AUTHOR

Jeff Biggers

History

Jeff Biggers is an award-winning historian, journalist and playwright. He is the author of the forthcoming Resistance: Reclaiming an American Tradition, Trials of a Scold: The Incredible True Story of Writer Anne Royall, longlisted for he PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography, State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream, selected as a Top Ten Book in Social Sciences by Publishers Weekly, Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland, winner of the Delta Award for Literature and the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, The United States of Appalachia, and In the Sierra Madre, recipient of the ForeWord Magazine Travel Book of the Year Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and national public radio programs, including NPR, PRI, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Huffington Post, Salon, The Nation and The Guardian. His website is www.jeffbiggers.com .