Lawrence Wright is a staff writer for the New Yorker and a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law. He has won several awards for his journalism. He is the author of Twins and Remembering Satan, and the co-writer of the movie The Siege. The Looming Tower was nominated for the National Book Award and has won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, the Lionel Gelber Prize, the J.
Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Festival Award for History, the Carr P. Collins Award for non-fiction, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal and the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.
Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Festival Award for History, the Carr P. Collins Award for non-fiction, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal and the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.















