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Lawrence Wright
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
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…
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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.
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2026
Musk
Movie Producer
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2024
Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove
TV show Self
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2024
God Save Texas
TV show Self
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2020
Kingdom of Silence
Movie Executive Producer
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2018
Three Identical Strangers
Movie Self
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2018
The Looming Tower
TV show Book
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2016
The New Yorker Presents
TV show Self
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2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Movie Self - Interviewee
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2010
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
Movie Himself
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2000
Noriega: God's Favorite
Movie Writer
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1998
The Siege
Movie Screenplay
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1996
Forgotten Sins
Movie Writer
