Lawrence Wright Bio, Age, Wife, Books and Political Views   

Lawrence Wright Biography

Lawrence Wright is an 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 best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.

The author 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”.

Lawrence Wright Age

Lawrence Wright is an 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 was born on August 2. 1947 in Oklahoma City, OK. Wright is 71 years old as of 2018.

Lawrence Wright Family

He was to her mother Dorothy Wright and her father Donald Wright. Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas, in 1965 and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2009. He is a graduate of Tulane University and taught English at the American University in Cairo “from which was awarded a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics in 1969” in Egypt for two years. He lives in Austin, Texas.

Lawrence Wright Wife

He is has married her wife to Roberta Wright.  The couple has one daughter named Caroline Wright. In 1980 he started working for the magazine Texas Monthly and contributed to Rolling Stone magazine. In late 1992, he joined the staff of The New Yorker.

Lawrence Wright Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of 1million dollars as of 2019. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author, screenwriter, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine,

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Here are some of his books

• God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State “2018”
• The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State “2016”
• Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace “2014”
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief “2013”
• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 “2006”
• Noriega: God’s Favorite [Novel] “2000”
• Twins: And What They Tell Us About Who We Are “1999”
• Remembering Satan “1994”
• Saints and Sinners”1993″
• In the New World: Growing Up in America, 1964-1984″1987″
• City Children, Country Summer: A Story of Ghetto Children Among the Amish “1979

“Wright is the author of ten books, such as The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, which spent eight weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Time Magazine pronounced it one of the 100 best nonfiction books ever written.

Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower

It is a gripping narrative that spans five decades, “The Looming Tower” explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Lawrence re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terrorist group in history.

He follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O’Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Packed with new information and a deep historical perspective, The Looming Tower is the definitive history of the long road to September 11.

Lawrence Wright Going Clear

Wright had written a profile of former Scientologist Paul Haggis for The New Yorker. His’s book on Scientology, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief was published in January 2013. The book contains interviews from current and former Scientologists and examines the history and leadership of the organization.

In an interview for The New York Times, Wright disclosed that he has received “innumerable” letters threatening legal action from lawyers representing the church and celebrities who belong to it. He spoke to two hundred current and former Scientologists for the book. The Church published an official statement in its newsroom and a blog listing its rebuttals to Wright’s claims.

Lawrence Wright Political Views

Author Lawrence Wright considered running for Texas governor

Lawrence said he was ultimately overruled by his family. He also acknowledged that it would’ve been an uphill battle.

New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright said Thursday morning he considered running for Texas governor this election cycle.

Wright told Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith that he considered running against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott following a legislative session in which social conservative issues like the “bathroom bill” went unchallenged by the governor. He said he discussed running at a time when the governor didn’t seem to have any Democratic challengers.

“There was a period of time where nobody was going to challenge the governor — because he’s unbeatable,” Wright said. “I thought it shouldn’t be the case that he’s not challenged.”

Wright is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a screenwriter, a playwright and the author of 11 previous books, including “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” and a new book about Texas, “God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State.” He said he was ultimately overruled by his family.

“To be honest, the chances of winning that race were slim, but I thought it was worth providing a contribution — a voice,” he said.

Ultimately, he said his family was concerned about the loss of privacy in a potential campaign. A handful of Democratic candidates ended up entering the race. The two most prominent — former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez and Andrew White, the son of former Gov. Mark White — will square off in a runoff for the Democratic nomination on May 22.

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Remembering Satan

In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first, the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before.

At a time when reported incidents of “recovered memories” had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention, in this case, is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff’s department.

Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family engulfed a small town and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. As it follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals. Remembering Satan gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.

Lawrence Wright Awards and honors

The year 2006

•  Los Angeles Times Book Prize for The Looming Tower
• New York Times bestseller for The Looming Tower
•  New York Times Notable Book of the Year for The Looming Tower
•  New York Times Best Books of the Year for The Looming Tower
•  IRE Award for The Looming Tower
•  National Book Award finalist for The Looming Tower
•  Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for The Looming Tower
• Time magazine’s Best Books of the Year for The Looming Tower

The year 2007

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for The Looming Tower
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism for The Looming Tower
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Looming Tower
Lionel Gelber Prize for The Looming Tower
Arthur Ross Book Award shortlist for The Looming Tower
PEN Center USA Literary Award (Research Nonfiction) for The Looming Tower

The year 2009

2009 Newsweek 50 Books for Our Times for The Looming Tower

The year 2013

National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) shortlist for Going Clear

The year 2015

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special.

Lawrence Wright Movies

• My Trip to Al-Qaeda “2010”
• Noriega: God’s Favorite “2000”
• The Siege”1998″