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]

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

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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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