Lawrence Wright

Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show My Trip to Al-Qaeda and his book Going Clear. His 2020 novel, The End of October, a thriller about a pandemic, was released in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, to generally positive reviews.

2 August 1947

Born on the same birth date (2 August 1947): Ruth Bakke

Born on the same birth day (2 August): Alex Jesaulenko • Andrew Gold • Augustus Rowe • Britt Nicole • Deividas Šemberas • Dennis Prager • Eric Simms (rugby league) • Frank Biela • Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi • Félix Leclerc • Holling C. Holling • Jean-Baptiste du Casse • Joe Hockey • John W. Snow • María Duval • Philippe II, Duke of Orléans • Rómulo Gallegos • Skylar Diggins-Smith • Varvara Gracheva • Viktor Zhirmunsky • Wah Chang

Born in the same month (August 1947): Angry Anderson • Emlyn Hughes • France A. Córdova • Georgios Karatzaferis • Halil Berktay • John Morrison (cricketer) • John Spencer (rugby union, born 1947) • John Stocker (voice actor) • Paulo Coelho • Rakhee Gulzar • Ray Wise • Sofia Rotaru • Terry Hoeppner