Toms River (book)

Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
AuthorDan Fagin
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEnvironmental issues in the United States, environmental science, oncology
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherBantam
Publication date
March 2013
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages560
ISBN978-0-553-80653-3
363.7209749/48
LC Class2012-017030

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]

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  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".
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