Lawrence Wright was born on August 2,1947 and is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.
11 Facts About Lawrence Wright
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Lawrence Wright is known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Lawrence Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear.
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Lawrence Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas, in 1965 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2009.
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Lawrence Wright is a graduate of Tulane University and taught English at the American University in Cairo in Egypt for two years.
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In 1980, Lawrence Wright began working for the magazine Texas Monthly and contributed to Rolling Stone magazine.
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In 2011, Lawrence Wright wrote a profile of former Scientologist Paul Haggis for The New Yorker.
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In 2015, Alex Gibney produced a documentary based on Lawrence Wright's book, titled Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief.
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On June 7,1996, Lawrence Wright testified at Ingram's pardon hearing.
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Lawrence Wright co-wrote the screenplay for the film The Siege, which tells the story of a terrorist attack in New York City that leads to curtailed civil liberties and rounding up of Arab-Americans.
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Lawrence Wright plays the keyboard in the Austin, Texas, blues collective WhoDo.
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Lawrence Wright has worked on a script over several years concerning the making of the epic film Cleopatra that starred Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Rex Harrison.