Literary Journalism and Memoir

LIS HARRIS is now at work on a book about three generations of a Palestinian family and three generations of an Israeli family.  Her previous books include Holy Days: The World of a Hasidic Family, Rules of Engagement, and Tilting at Mills: Green Dreams, Dirty Dealings and the Corporate Squeeze, the story of an eight-year struggle to build a paper mill in the South Bronx. As a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than two decades, she wrote on a wide range of social and cultural matters, and she has received awards from the Woodrow Wilson, Rockefeller, and J. M. Kaplan foundations.  She teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University.