Lawrence Wright

79, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

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Biography

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His 2006 history of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks, was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, among other honors. Wright co-wrote the 1998 film “The Siege,” which depicts events eerily similar to those occurring in the U.S. after 9/11. In 2006, his one-man play “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” based on the book, enjoyed a sold-out, six-week run in Soho. Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Timeline

2026Aged 79

  • Poster for Musk

    Producer

2020Aged 73

  • Poster for Kingdom of Silence

    Executive Producer

2018Aged 71

  • Poster for Three Identical Strangers

    Self

2015Aged 68

  • Poster for Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief

    Self - Interviewee

2010Aged 63

  • Poster for My Trip to Al-Qaeda

    Himself

2000Aged 53

  • Poster for Noriega: God's Favorite

    Co-Producer

1998Aged 51

  • Poster for The Siege

    Screenplay

1996Aged 49

  • Poster for Forgotten Sins

    Writer