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): Alexander Emelianenko • Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau • Dragan Vukmir • Fulvio Melia • Herbert M. Allison • Jacky Rosen • John Alexander Douglas McCurdy • John Sloan • John W. Snow • Lily Gladstone • Malcolm Hilton • Michael Hughes (footballer) • Nell Irvin Painter • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria • Prafulla Chandra Ray • Rómulo Gallegos

Born in the same month (August 1947): Anuška Ferligoj • August 23 • Barbara Bach • Bernie Carbo • Chantal Montellier • Danielle Steel • Gavin Pfuhl • Gerard Schwarz • John Spencer (rugby union, born 1947) • Joop van Daele • Michael Kaluta • Paulo Coelho • Ray Wise • Sofia Rotaru • Temple Grandin • Terry Hoeppner • The Buckinghams • Willy Russell • Yumiko Ōshima