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Jeff Biggers

Jeff Biggers
Jeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian, journalist and playwright. Based part-time in Italy since 1989, he is the recipient of the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year for Travel Writing, a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, and other honors. Author of ten books of cultural history and investigative reporting, his work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Salon.com, and on National Public Radio and Public Radio International. For more information, visit: www.jeffbiggers.com


“The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

Jeff Biggers on the Centuries-Old Tradition of Poetry in Sardinia
May 25, 2023  By Jeff Biggers
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Family Separation and Reconciliation in Cecile Pineda’s Anti-Memoir

Jeff Biggers Interviews Pineda on Entry Without Inspection
March 4, 2021  By Jeff Biggers
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A Holy Terror, A Common Scold, and the First Feminist Blogger

On the Trial of Anne Royall, Godmother to the Muckrakers
November 10, 2017  By Jeff Biggers
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