Robin Wright

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Robin B. Wright (born 1948^[1]) is an American foreign affairs analyst, and an award-winning journalist and author.

A graduate of the University of Michigan, she lives in Washington D.C.^[2]

Career

Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker, TIME magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, The Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and as a roving foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia. She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. She most recently covered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post.

Besides a long career in journalism, Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke, Stanford, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution's Saban Center, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California. She lectures extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia and has been a television commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and MSNBC programs, including "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "This Week," "Nightline," the PBS Newshour, "Frontline," "Charlie Rose," "Larry King Live," "Washington Week in Review," "The Colbert Report," and HBO's "Real Time," as well as many other programs.

Awards and honors

The American Academy of Diplomacy selected Wright as the journalist of the year for her "distinguished reporting and analysis of international affairs" in 2004. She was also awarded the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for analysis and coverage of international affairs, and the National Press Club award for diplomatic reporting. Among many other awards, she has received the National Magazine Award for her reportage from Iran in The New Yorker and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for coverage of African wars. She is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant. She won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship ^[3] in 1975 to research and write about the dismantling of Portugal's African empire.

Books

• Robin Wright, Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World Simon & Schuster (July 19, 2011) ISBN 978-1-4391-0316-6
• Robin Wright (editor), The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and U.S. Policy United States Institute of Peace Press (December 1, 2010) ISBN 978-1-60127-084-9
• Robin Wright, Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East Penguin Press (2008) ISBN 1-59420-111-0, a New York Times Notable Book in 2008 and one of The Washington Post’s “Best Books of 2008”
• Robin Wright, The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2000) ISBN 978-0-375-70630-1
• Robin Wright and Doyle McManus, Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World Ballantine Books (December 22, 1992) ISBN 978-0-449-90673-6
• Robin Wright, In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade Simon & Schuster (October 1989) ISBN 978-0-671-67235-5
• Robin Wright, Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam Simon & Schuster (October 1985) ISBN 978-0-671-60113-3, Andre Deutsch (1986) ISBN 978-0-233-97883-3, Touchstone (rev. 2001) ISBN 978-0-7432-3342-2

References

External links

• Robin Wright Books
• Robin Wright Blog analysis of international affairs and current crises
• The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and US Policy, website for book edited by Robin Wright
• Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Booknotes interview with Wright on In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade, November 19, 1989.
• Robin Wright (author) on Charlie Rose
• Robin Wright (author) at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Robin Wright (author) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)