Graeme Wood (journalist)
Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979 in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer for The Atlantic. Prior to that he was a contributing editor there[1] and has written for The New Yorker,[2] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. Wood works also as a lecturer in political science at Yale University.[3]
In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.[4]
Early life and education[]
Wood was born in Polk County, Minnesota.[5] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.[6] He attended the American University in Cairo, Indiana University, and Deep Springs College before graduating from Harvard College in 2001.[7]
Notable articles[]
- Scrubbed: The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management – New York magazine, June 2013
- Hell Is an Understatement – The New Republic, June 2014
- How Gangs Took Over Prisons – The Atlantic, September 2014
- What ISIS Really Wants – The Atlantic, March 2015
- Donald Trump and the Apocalypse; Is Rome really ISIS’s “ultimate trophy”? – The Atlantic, February 2016
- The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse - The Atlantic, November 2020
- America Has Forgotten How to Forgive - The Atlantic, March 19, 2021
References[]
- ^ "Author page". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ "Author page". Yale University. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- ^ "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
- ^ "Minnesota Birth Index". Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Wood, Graeme. "Richard Spencer Was My High-School Classmate". The Atlantic (June 2017). Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- ^ Adam A. Sofen (2000). "Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
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