Lawrence Wright

1947 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: documentary

country of citizenship: United States of America

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: Tulane University, Woodrow Wilson High School, The American University in Cairo

occupation: screenwriter, novelist, journalist, playwright, writer

award received: Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Lionel Gelber Prize, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize

official website: www.lawrencewright.com

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, to generally positive reviews. Source: Wikipedia (en)