Lawrence wright author biography page
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and three National Magazine Awards.
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Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright has been a personal writer at The New Yorker since 1992. He has also written books, movies, and plays.
In 1993, Wright published a two-part article in the magazine about recovered memories, titled “Remembering Satan,” which won a National Magazine Award and the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism. He won another National Magazine Award for his profil of Paul Haggis, “The Apostate,” in 2011. That article became a part of his book “Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief” (2013), which was subsequently made into an HBO documentary that won three Emmys, including one for best documentary. His history of Al Qaeda, “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” (2006), was translated into twenty-four languages and won a pris Prize for general nonfiction. Parts of the book originally appeared in The New Yorker, including a Profile of Ayman al-Zawahiri—the current leader of Al Qaeda—
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Lawrence Wright
American writer and journalist (born 1947)
For other people named Lawrence Wright, see Lawrence Wright (disambiguation).
Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear. His 2020 novel, The End of October, a thriller about a pandemic, was released in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic,[1] to generally positive reviews.[2]
Background and education
[edit]Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas, in 1965 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2009.[3]