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Jeff Biggers

  • Author, Historian, Journalist, Playwright, and Founder, Climate Narrative Project, Freelance
Bologna, Iowa City, Sardinia
As seen in: MSN, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Guardian, NPR, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera English, The Hill, Salon, Smithsonian Magazine and
Covers:  Climate, environment, culture, Italy, Sardinia, history
American Book Award-winning author, historian, journalist, playwright. Founded Climate Narrative Project

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Jeff Biggers’s Biography

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Jeff Biggers is the author/editor of ten books of narrative non-fiction, including IN SARDINIA: An Unexpected Journey in Italy (Melville House), praised as "enthusiastic and erudite" by the Wall Street Journal, and a biography on pioneering muckraker Anne Royall, TRIALS OF A SCOLD (St. Martin's), longlisted for the PEN Bograd Weld Award. Recipient of the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award, Biggers has worked as a freelance journalist, radio co…

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History Prompts: How Can I Write a Book on Medieval Bologna When Our Country Is Coming Undone?

History Prompts: How Can I Write a Book on Medieval Bologna When Our Country Is Coming Undone?

History author Jeff Biggers answers the question of how he can write a cultural history of Bologna, Italy, wh…

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Antidote for Despair in the Shawnee National Forest * The Revelator

Antidote for Despair in the Shawnee National Forest * The Revelator

In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation's first "Climate Preserve."

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Restorative Archaeology? Time to Return Looted Treasures to Sardinia | Common Dreams

Restorative Archaeology? Time to Return Looted Treasures to Sardinia | Common Dreams

A range of voices continue to demand the return of the island's looted treasures from private and public venu…

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Iowa's Fields of Resistance and Refuge

Iowa's Fields of Resistance and Refuge

"Every night Walter Cronkite would give the body count. We would see these horrific stories of children runni…

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Iowa's Fields of Resistance and Refuge

Iowa's Fields of Resistance and Refuge

"Every night Walter Cronkite would give the body count. We would see these horrific stories of children runni…

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In Sardinia in New York | Italics

In Sardinia in New York | Italics

In our upcoming episode, we visit The Center at West Park's Sanctuary Space for the concert and performance "…

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Antidote for Despair in the Shawnee National Forest

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By Jeff Biggers
| The Revelator Verified
Pope County, Illinois — Dressed in his trademark blue denim overalls, former coal miner Sam Stearns recently took me to a cleared logging road adjacent to the Bell Smith Springs area, a National Natural Landmark in the Shawnee National Forest. Stearns, a long-time forest advocate, pointed out how invasive species had swarmed the area under the current “cut, burn, and spray” national forest policies, while mature oaks planted in the time of his parents were earmarked for sales.
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The Revelator - Jeff Biggers

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By Jeff Biggers
| The Revelator Verified
Antidote for Despair in the Shawnee National Forest In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation’s first “Climate Preserve.” In the ruins of abandoned strip mines, a broad movement aims to create the nation’s first “Climate Preserve.”
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Restorative Archaeology? Time to Return Looted Treasures to Sardinia | Common Dreams

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By Jeff Biggers
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When the small statues of a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age priestess and her protector take the stage at a next week in London, the Nurnet nonprofit organization in Sardinia plans to make their own bid to bring the sacred bronze pieces back home.
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David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting

2010 - Environmental Journalism

American Book Award

2005

Lowell Thomas Award Travel Journalism

2001 - Travel Journalism

Delta Award for Literature

2010

Plattner Award for Appalachian Literature

2008

Garst Memorial Award for Media (United Nations - Iowa)

2017

Illinois Arts Council Creative Nonfiction Award

Foreword Book of the Year: Travel, Gold Medal

2006
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