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Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author Dan Fagin.[1] It is about the dumping of industrial pollution by chemical companies including Ciba-Geigy, in Toms River, New Jersey, beginning in 1952 through the 1980s,[2] and the epidemiological investigations of a cancer cluster that subsequently emerged there. The book won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction,[3] the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism,[4] and the 2014 National Academies Communication Award.[5]

Author

English

Non-fiction

March 2013

United States

Print (Hardback)

560

363.7209749/48

2012-017030

Dan Fagin (March 19, 2013). Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Bantam.  978-0553806533.

ISBN

Audiobook narrated by , published by Random House Audio, March 19, 2013

Dan Woren

E-book editions

NPR, April 2013

The Diane Rehm Show