Lawrence Wright (writer)

Lawrence Wright (2014)

Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947 ) is an American writer , journalist and screenwriter .

Life

After studying at Tulane University in New Orleans , Wright spent two years at the American University in Cairo , teaching English and doing his Masters in Applied Linguistics . So far he has published five non-fictional books. He also writes regularly for the New Yorker .

For “ Death Will Find You ”, in which he described the origins of al-Qaida and the background to September 11th, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the non-fiction category and the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2007 .

2000: Noriega (Noriega: God's Favorite)
2015: Scientology: A Prison of Belief (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief)

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief , 2013. ISBN 978-0307700667 (English)
- In the Prison of Faith: Scientology, Hollywood and the Interior of a Modern Church . DVA, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-421-04535-5 .
Death will find you . Al-Qaeda and the road to September 11th. A mirror book at DVA, Munich 2007, 544 pages. ISBN 978-3-421-04303-0 (American. Original: The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Knopf, NYC, 2006. ISBN 0-14-102935-8 )
Conflicted Boundaries in Wisdom and Apocalypticism , 2005, ISBN 1-58983-184-5 (English)
God's Favorite. A novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000, ISBN 0-684-86810-5 (English)
Twins. Genes, the environment and the secret of identity. Vienna; Munich: Deuticke, 1998, ISBN 3-216-30408-6 .
Memories of Satan: a father is accused. Munich: Dt. Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3-423-12286-2 .
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David. Alfred A. Knopf. 2014, ISBN 978-0-385-35203-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Wright, Lawrence
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American writer, journalist and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 2, 1947