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| name = Evan Wright | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio | birth_name = Evan Alan Wright | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}}[1] | occupation = Writer | years_active = | notable_works = Generation Kill, Hella Nation, American Desperado | style = | television = Generation Kill | awards = Two National Magazine Awards | website = | box_width = }}Evan Alan Wright (born 1966) is an American writer, known for his extensive reporting on subcultures for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.[1] He is best known for his book on the Iraq War, Generation Kill. In 2012 he wrote an exposé about a top CIA officer who allegedly worked as a Mafia hitman, How to Get Away With Murder in America.[2] Though some compare his writings to those of Hunter S. Thompson, Wright claims his biggest literary influences were Mark Twain and British-American author Christopher Isherwood.[3] The New York Times called his military writing "nuanced and grounded in details often overlooked in daily journalistic accounts" and noted his use of "gallows humor."[4] BiographyWright was born in Cleveland, Ohio and grew up in Willoughby, Ohio. Both of his parents were lawyers. His father was a prosecutor, then the general counsel for a utility. Wright attended Hawken School,[6] but was kicked out for selling marijuana and sent to a home for juvenile delinquents called The Seed.[3] He returned to Hawken and made State Debate finals in high school. Wright studied at Johns Hopkins University and at Vassar College. He graduated from Vassar College with a degree in medieval history.[5] His first writing job was to interview South African political leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, but it was for a small magazine that did not pay.[6] Hustler magazineIn 1995, he became the entertainment editor and chief pornographic film reviewer for Hustler magazine. In 2000, he wrote about the experience and the issues surrounding the pornography industry in an article for Salon titled "Maxed Out"[7] and for the LA Weekly in a cover story titled "Scenes from My Life in Porn".[8] Immersion journalismStarting in 1996 at Hustler, then at Rolling Stone, TIME, and Vanity Fair he wrote long features based on his immersion in subcultures ranging from radical environmentalists to neo-Nazis. Many of his essays focused on crimes or controversial figures and were said by him to capture a "dark, untamed America" that resembled "the Wild West."[9] Several of his essays were collected in the book Hella Nation, which Wright called a "sort of autobiography".[3] His essays in Hella Nation were compared to Joan Didion's writings on California.[10] Another reviewer called Hella Nation a "comically macabre portrait of American life."[11] Military reportingIn 2002, Wright went to Afghanistan on assignment for Rolling Stone.[5] In 2003, he was embedded with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the early stages of the 2003 invasion of Iraq.[12] Wright spent his entire time embedded in a recon team led by Sergeant (at the time) Brad Colbert. He was under fire with the Marines for several weeks, and accompanied them "on point," or in the lead vehicle. One of the Marines in the unit told The New York Times, "He was in the worst possible place to have a reporter. During the first firefight, he took 10 rounds in his door."[4] Wright expressed admiration for the Marines, but warned them that a reporter's motto is "charm and betray". He published a series of articles for Rolling Stone magazine titled "The Killer Elite" which, in 2004, received the National Magazine Award for Reporting, the top prize in magazine writing. He then wrote Generation Kill.[13] In 2007, he returned to Iraq when the surge in U.S. forces was beginning. Wright interviewed General David Petraeus and spent several weeks embedded with U.S. troops in Baghdad, Ramadi, and Diwania. He later criticized American television media for promoting misperceptions of the war. He also criticized some U.S. political leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, for calling the surge a failure before it had been fully implemented.[14] Television and filmGeneration Kill was adapted into a television miniseries by the HBO network and first aired in 2008; Wright was portrayed by Lee Tergesen. Wright himself served as a writer and consulting producer on the project, collaborating closely with Emmy-winning producer David Simon.[15]Wright was hired by Paramount to write a script about Miami's "Cocaine Cowboys" Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday for Peter Berg to direct. The screenplay is based on a book Wright is writing about Roberts to be published by Crown Books.[16] Actor Mark Wahlberg is producing the film and plans to star in it.[17] In 2010 it was announced that director Ole Bornedal was filming a movie[18] inspired by an article Wright wrote for TIME magazine called "Death of a Hostess."[19] Wright's article was a profile of Japanese serial-rapist and killer Joji Obara he wrote in Tokyo for TIME magazine.[20] In 2012 he released the book American Desperado,[2][21] a book he co-wrote with Jon Roberts, who was featured in the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.[22] ControversiesAt least six of the Marines that Wright wrote about in Generation Kill have claimed they were punished for the remarks he published. Spokesman Lt. Nathan Braden denied that any Marines were punished as a result of Wright's work.[5] In 2004, Wright wrote an op-ed in The New York Times criticizing the U.S. military for allowing Iraq's insurgents to obtain weapons.[23] Wright has criticized college creative writing programs, saying such programs produce bad writers.[3] Published works
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References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,108848,00.html|work=TIME magazine|title=Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess|author=Evan Alan Wright|date=May 7, 2001|accessdate=May 4, 2012}} 2. ^1 {{cite web | magazine = Wired | url = https://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/cia/ | title = Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman | author = Robert Beckhusen | date = 2012-06-27 | accessdate = 2012-12-18}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 {{citation | last = Timberg | first = Scott | author-link = | title = Evan Wright: Going where the wild things are | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = April 5, 2009 | url = http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-ca-evan-wright5-2009apr05,0,3141348,full.story | accessdate = 2010-11-19}} 4. ^1 {{citation | last = Waxman | first = Sharon | author-link = | title = Sparring No One | newspaper = New York Times | date = June 10, 2004 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/10/books/sparing-no-one-a-journalist-s-account-of-war.html | accessdate = }} 5. ^1 2 {{citation | last = Dechter | first = Gadi | author-link = | title = Rogue Warriors: Rolling Stone Journalist Evan Wright Brings Back a Brutally Candid View of the War—and the Soldiers—in Iraq | newspaper = Baltimore City Paper | date = July 14, 2004 | url = http://www2.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=8553 | accessdate = 2011-11-17}} 6. ^1 {{citation | last = Heaton | first = Michael | author-link = | title = Author evan Wright Talks About Rogues and Heroes | newspaper = Plain Dealer | date = December 11, 2011 | url = http://www.cleveland.com/pdq/index.ssf/2011/12/ten_minutes_with_evan_wright_a.html | accessdate = }} 7. ^{{citation | last = Wright | first = Evan | author-link = | title = Maxed out | newspaper = Salon.com | date = January 18, 2000 | url = http://dir.salon.com/story/health/sex/urge/2000/01/18/hustler/ | accessdate = 2010-11-19}} 8. ^{{citation | last = Wright | first = Evan | author-link = | title = Scenes from My Life in Porn | newspaper = LA Weekly | date = March 29, 2000 | url = http://www.laweekly.com/2000-04-06/news/scenes-from-my-life-in-porn/ | accessdate = 2010-11-19}} 9. ^{{citation | last = Reggie | first = Aqui | author-link = | title = Dark, Untamed America | work= CNN | date = April 2009 | url = http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2009/04/15/dcl.intv.wright.hella.nation.cnn}} 10. ^{{citation | last = Carson | first = Tom | author-link = | title = Hustle and Flow | newspaper = Los Angeles Magazine | date = April 2009 | url = http://www.lamag.com/laculturehome/2009/04/20/hustle-and-flow1 | accessdate = 2012-11-18 }} 11. ^{{citation | last = Astor | first = Michael | author-link = | title = Review: Hella Nation | agency = Associated Press | date = April 2009 | url = http://blogs.knoxnews.com/books/2009/04/review-evan-wrights-hella-nati.html | accessdate = 2012-06-23}} 12. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4123158 |title=Evan Wright: Reporting on 'The Killer Elite' |work= National Public Radio |author= Jennifer Ludden | accessdate=2010-11-19}} 13. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3213017 |title='Generation Kill': Elite Marines Battle in Iraq |author=Madeleine Brand|work= National Public Radio |accessdate=2010-11-19}} 14. ^http://bigthink.com/ideas/284 15. ^{{citation | last = Smith | first = Lynn | author-link = | title = Ensuring a series is combat ready | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | date = July 15, 2008 | url = http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-scriptland15-2008jul15,0,438243.story | accessdate = 2010-11-19}} 16. ^{{cite news| url= http://in.reuters.com/article/idINN2442078720080724 | work=Reuters | title=Wright takes on "Cowboys" starring Wahlberg | date=2008-07-24}} 17. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/oscar-qa-mark-wahlberg-on-the-fighter/ |title=OSCAR Q&A: Mark Wahlberg On ‘The Fighter’ |work= Deadline |accessdate=2010-11-19}} 18. ^http://twitchfilm.com/news/2010/03/ole-bornedal-to-helm-thriller-death-of-a-hostess.php 19. ^{{cite news | url= https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/462143/Death-of-a-Hostess/credits | work=The New York Times | title= Death of a Hostess}} 20. ^{{cite news| url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,108848,00.html | work=Time | first=EVAN ALAN WRIGHT | last=Tokyo | title= Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | date=2001-05-14}} 21. ^{{citation | title = American Desperado | url = https://www.amazon.com/American-Desperado-Life-Government-ebook/dp/B004N636AS/ }} 22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000061958,00.html |title=Evan Wright - About Evan Wright - Penguin Group (USA) |work=us.penguingroup.com |date=April 7, 2014 |quote=The Seed, a reported memoir of brainwashing to be published in the Summer of 2010. |accessdate=April 7, 2014 |author= |others=Image credit:Zari |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408040236/http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000061958,00.html |archivedate=April 8, 2014 |deadurl=no |df= }} 23. ^{{citation | last = Wright | first = Evan | author-link = | title = How Much Is That Uzi In the Window? | newspaper = New York Times | date = June 17, 2004 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/17/opinion/how-much-is-that-uzi-in-the-window.html | accessdate = 2010-11-19}} 24. ^{{cite web|title=J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners|url=http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/JAnthonyLukasPrizeProject/Winners.aspx|publisher=Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard|accessdate=16 March 2011}} 25. ^{{citation | last = Wright | first = Evan | author-link = | title = Life With the Anarchists | newspaper = The Daily Beast | date = April 6, 2009 | url = http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-04-06/life-with-the-anarchists/ | accessdate = 2010-11-19}} External links
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