Robert Nicholas McDonell was born on February 18,1984 and is an American writer who has worked as a journalist, screenwriter, producer, novelist and researcher.
10 Facts About Nick McDonell
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Nick McDonell was born in 1984 in New York City and raised there.
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Nick McDonell attended the Buckley School, the Riverdale Country School, and graduated from Harvard College in January 2007.
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Nick McDonell's mother, Joanie, is a writer, and his father, Terry McDonell, is managing editor of Sports Illustrated.
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Nick McDonell's father was once managing editor of Rolling Stone, where Hunter S Thompson was a contributing editor and a friend; Thompson gave a blurb to McDonell when Twelve was published, as did writers Richard Price and Joan Didion, both personal friends of the family.
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Nick McDonell wrote the novel Twelve in 2002, when he was 17.
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Nick McDonell was credited as a screenwriter and producer on this proposed television series.
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Nick McDonell has spent years researching and studying such peoples to understand their circumstances.
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Nick McDonell traveled all around the world for research to rural locations in developing countries such as the Rift Valley, Afghanistan and more.
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Nick McDonell has been acclaimed for his book La Guerre a Harvard published in France in 2009, and articles from Darfur for Harper's Magazine 2009, and for Time from Iraq.