Indiana State University Jamal Khashoggi Annual Address on Journalism and the Media Presents: Author, Screenwriter, and Staff Writer for The New Yorker Magazine A graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, and the American University in Cairo, Wright began his writing career at The Race Relations Reporter in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1971. In 1980, Wright became a staff writer for Texas Monthly. He also became a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. In 1992, he joined the staff of The New Yorker, where he has published a number of prize-winning articles, including three National Magazine Awards. He is the author of eleven nonfiction books. His book about the rise of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006), was published to immediate and widespread acclaim. It has been translated into 25 languages and won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. It was made into a series for Hulu in 2018. Wright is a member of the Counci...