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PUBLISHED: Jan.28.2010

Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland

Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a sweeping journey into the secret history of coal-mining in American heartland. In the ruins of his family’s strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, Biggers unfolds a deeply personal and breakthrough portrait of the largely overlooked human and environmental costs of our...

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In the Sierra Madre

The Sierra Madre--no other mountain range in the world possesses such a ring of intrigue. In the Sierra Madre is a groundbreaking and extraordinary memoir that chronicles the astonishing history of one of the most famous, yet unknown, regions in the world. Based on his one-year sojourn among the Raramuri/Tarahumara in Mexico's Copper Canyon, award-winning journalist Jeff Biggers...

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The United States of Appalachia

Few regions in the United States confound and fascinate Americans like Appalachia, and yet no other region has been so misrepresented by the mass media. With humor, intelligence, and clarity, Jeff Biggers's groundbreaking work shows how a remarkable procession of innovators from the hills of Appalachia have defined and shaped the great American experience, from the American...

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Jeff's Latest Blogs

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Sep.10.2010 - 10:47 am

Tipping Point of Anti-Muslim and Anti-Immigrant Violence? Ask Louisville

(Sept. 10) -- A tiny Christian sect in Gainesville, Fla., threatens to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11; tensions continue to rise over an Islamic community center near ...

May.20.2010 - 4:15 pm

Taking the Page to the Stage: When Characters from Your Family Memoir Step onto Off Broadway

posted at Huffington Post, May 20, 2010 This is the scene, when the coal-fired electricity that lights up New York City's neon theatre district lowers on stage: We are inside the...

Feb.28.2010 - 12:22 pm

Collateral Damage of "Clean Coal"

Huffington Post, Feb. 16, 2010 No American leader has done more to advance a clean energy future than President Obama. Nor has any American president done more to invoke a mandate...

Dec.09.2009 - 5:11 pm

Copenhagen at Home: Coal Free Future Begins in Kentucky

posted on Huffingtonpost, Dec. 9, 2009 As world leaders gather for the Copenhagen Climate Summit, we plan to make our own Copenhagen pledge here at home: It's time to envision a...

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Article: Mexican Immigrant's Act of Honor

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Jan.31.2010

Published by Citizen-Times

"Biggers, with his coal country background and authentic folk-hero style, joins a literary movement as well as a political one — the field of creative nonfiction. Like Robert...

Audio & Video

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Video: Interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now

Video: Interview with Leonard Lopate on WNYC

Video: Trailer for Reckoning at Eagle Creek

About Jeff

Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer, radio correspondent, educator and community organizer across the United States, Europe, India and Mexico. His award-winning stories have appeared on NPR, PRI, and in scores of travel, literary and music magazines, and...

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Causes Jeff Biggers Supports

PEN American Center
Native Seed Search / http://www.nativeseeds...