Lawrence Wright

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August 02, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The United States

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Lawrence Wright is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. He is a graduate of Tulane University, and for two years taught at the American University in Cairo in Egypt.

Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas, Texas) in 1965 and, in 2009, was inducted into Woodrow's Hall of Fame.

Wright is the author of six books, but is best known for his 2006 book, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. A quick bestseller, The Looming Tower was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, and is frequently referenced by media pundits as an ex...more

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Average rating: 4.29 · 4,273 ratings · 840 reviews · 11 distinct works

	The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 4.33 avg rating — 4,074 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Remembering Satan 3.45 avg rating — 113 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Twins: And What They Tell Us about Who We Are 3.44 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions	My rating:
	God's Favorite 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Saints and Sinners: Walker Railey, Jimmy Swaggart, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Anton LaVey, Will Campbell , Matthew Fox 3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions	My rating:
	In the New World 3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1987 — 2 editions	My rating:
	In the New World: Growing Up with America, 1960-1984 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fallaci 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Identity 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Perspective In Perspective 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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“I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from.”
― Lawrence Wright

tags: 9-11 , new-journalism , process , reading , research , writing

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