Robin Wright (author)

Wright was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She attended Pres Fleuris—Les Roches in Bluche-sur-Sierre, Switzerland. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she is the daughter of L. Hart Wright, a University of Michigan law professor{{Cite web|title=My Last Conversation with My Father|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/my-last-conversation-with-my-father|last=Wright|first=Robin|website=The New Yorker|date=2017-06-17|language=en|access-date=2020-05-04}} and Phyllis Wright, a dancer and actress. She lives in Washington, D.C.{{cite web |url=http://www.greatertalent.com/biography.php?id=329 |title=Award-winning journalist and author Robin Wright |access-date=2008-02-21 |publisher=Greater Talent Network (GTN) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010004108/http://www.greatertalent.com/biography.php?id=329 |archive-date=2007-10-10}}

Wright received an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1975 to live in Africa and write about the dismantling of Portugal's African empire.[http://aliciapatterson.org//fellows?field_year_value=1975 Robin Wright, The Dismantling of Portugal's African Empire]

Wright has reported from more than 140 countries on seven continents for The New Yorker, The Washington Post,{{Cite web|title=Interview by Robin Wright of The Washington Post|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/former/powell/remarks/2003/27649.htm|last=Department Of State. The Office of Electronic Information|first=Bureau of Public Affairs|website=2001-2009.state.gov|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}} The Los Angeles Times,{{Cite web|title=Los Angeles Times journalist Robin Wright|date=2002-11-26|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=858164|website=NPR|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}} The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic,{{Cite web|title=What Would the World Be Like Without Him?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/what-would-the-world-be-like-without-him/303936/|last=Wright|first=Robin|date=1994-07-01|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-05}} The Sunday Times of London, Foreign Policy (2011–2019),{{Cite web|title=Robin Wright|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/author/robin-wright/|last=Wright|first=Robin|website=Foreign Policy|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-05}} Foreign Affairs,{{Cite web|title=Robin Wright|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/robin-wright|date=2009-01-28|website=Foreign Affairs|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}} CBS News, The Christian Science Monitor,{{Cite news|date=1988-01-25|title=Youth, religion, and radicalism give new twist to Palestinian movement|work=Christian Science Monitor|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1988/0125/orob1.html|access-date=2020-05-05|issn=0882-7729}} and others. She did several tours as a foreign correspondent based in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and as a roving foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia. She formerly covered U.S. foreign policy and national security for The Washington Post. She is currently a columnist for The New Yorker{{Cite web|title=Robin Wright|url=https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/robin-wright|website=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}}.

Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, the U.S. Institute of Peace,{{Cite web|title=Robin Wright|url=https://www.usip.org/people/robin-wright|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310185810/https://www.usip.org/people/robin-wright|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 10, 2017|website=United States Institute of Peace|language=en|access-date=2020-05-05}} the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California.{{cite web|title=Wilson Center Experts - Robin Wright|url=http://www.wilsoncenter.org/staff/robin-wright|work=2014|publisher=Wilson Center|access-date=3 April 2014}}

Wright's book Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic world (2011) was selected as the Best Book on International Affairs by the Overseas Press Club in 2011. Among her other books, Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008) was selected by both The New York Times and The Washington Post as one of the most notable books of the year.

As an analyst, Wright has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, The Today Show, and Nightly News; CBS's Face the Nation, Morning News and Evening News; and ABC's This Week and ''Nightline', among many other programs.{{Cite web|title=Robin Wright|url=https://www.aspeninstitute.org/our-people/robin-wright-2/|website=The Aspen Institute|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-05}}

• 1976: Overseas Press Club Bob Considine Award for "best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for the Christian Science Monitor's coverage of the Angolan war.[https://opcofamerica.org/opc-awards-contest-rules/archive-award/ Overseas Press Club of America Awards Recipients]. Retrieved 2021-01-16
• 1989: National Magazine Award for reportage from Iran in The New Yorker
• 2001: Georgetown University Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Weintal Prize "for most distinguished diplomatic reporting" in the Washington PostInstitute for the Study of Diplomacy. [https://isd.georgetown.edu/programs/awards-lectures/weintal-prize/ Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting - Past Recipients]. Retrieved 2021-01-16
• 2003: U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for analysis and coverage of international affairs
• 2004: National Press Club award for diplomatic reporting[https://archive.today/20140201042804/http://www.usip.org/experts/robin-wright Robin Wright, Distinguished Scholar]
• 2004: American Academy of Diplomacy journalist of the year for "distinguished reporting and analysis of international affairs"[http://www.cassidyandfishman.com/speakers/robin-wright/ Robin Wright, Speaker] CassidyAndFishman.com
• 2015, May 2: honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from her alma mater, the University of Michigan.{{Cite web|title=Seven to receive honorary degrees at Spring Commencement {{!}} The University Record|url=https://record.umich.edu/articles/seven-receive-honorary-degrees-spring-commencement/|website=record.umich.edu|access-date=2020-05-05}}

She is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant.

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{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?9970-1/in-god-khomeini-decade Booknotes interview with Wright on In the Name of God, November 19, 1989], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?155485-1/the-great-revolution Presentation by Wright on The Last Great Revolution, February 17, 2000], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?203750-1/after-words-robin-wright After Words interview with Wright on Dreams and Shadows, March 29, 2008], C-SPAN| video4 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?300925-5/rock-casbah Washington Journal interview with Wright on Rock the Casbah, August 8, 2011], C-SPAN}}

• {{cite book |author=Robin Wright|title=Sacred rage : the crusade of modern Islam |location=New York |publisher=Linden Press/Simon and Schuster |year=1985}}
• {{cite book |author=Wright, Robin |author-mask=1 |title=Sacred rage : the crusade of modern Islam |version=UK edition |location=London |publisher=Andre Deutsch |year=1986 |orig-year=1985}}
• Robin Wright, In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade, Simon & Schuster (October 1989) {{ISBN|978-0-671-67235-5}}
• [http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/9970-1/Robin-Wright.aspx Booknotes interview of Wright] about In the Name of God, (November 19, 1989)
• 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, The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2000) {{ISBN|978-0-375-70630-1}}
• {{cite book |author=Wright, Robin |author-mask=1 |title=Sacred rage : the wrath of militant Islam |version=Revised edition |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2001}}
• 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 [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/ “Best Books of 2008”]
• 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, [http://books.simonandschuster.com/Rock-the-Casbah/Robin-Wright/9781439103166 Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World] Simon & Schuster (July 19, 2011) {{ISBN|978-1-4391-0316-6}}
• Robin Wright (editor), [http://theislamistsarecoming.wilsoncenter.org/islamists/home The Islamists are Coming: Who They Really Are] United States Institute of Peace Press (April 2012) {{ISBN|978-1601271341}}
• {{cite magazine |author=Wright, Robin |author-mask=1 |date=July 27, 2015 |title=Tehran's promise : the revolution's midlife crisis and the nuclear deal |department=Letter from Iran |magazine=The New Yorker |volume=91 |issue=21 |pages=22–28 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/27/tehrans-promise |access-date=2015-12-06}}

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• [http://robinwrightblog.blogspot.com Robin Wright Blog] analysis of international affairs and current crises
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101022152852/http://iranprimer.usip.org/frontpage The Iran Primer: Power, Politics, and US Policy], website for book edited by Robin Wright
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