Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation

Author	Dan Fagin
Language	English
Subject	Environmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	Bantam
Publication date	March 2013
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	560
ISBN	978-0-553-80653-3
Dewey Decimal	363.7209749/48
LC Class	2012-017030

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation is a 2013 nonfiction 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 Nonfiction,^[3] the 2014 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism,^[4] and the 2014 National Academies Communication Award.^[5]

Editions

• Dan Fagin (March 19, 2013). Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Bantam. ISBN 978-0553806533.
• Audiobook narrated by Dan Woren, published by Random House Audio, March 19, 2013
• E-book editions

References

1. Abigail Zuger (March 18, 2013). "On the Trail of Cancer". The New York Times. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
2. Alexander Nazaryan (May 24, 2013). "A Town Plagued by Water". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
3. "The Pulitzer Prizes: General Nonfiction". Pulitzer.org. April 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2014.
4. "Past Winners of The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism". New York Public Library. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
5. "National Academies Keck Futures Initiative - - Communication Awards".

External links

• The Diane Rehm Show, NPR, April 2013