Robin Wright (author)

Robin Wright is an American journalist currently covering U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post, She has reported for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times, CBS News and The Christian Science Monitor, and has served as a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa. She has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The International Herald Tribune.

Awards and Honors

Wright is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she was the first woman reporter on varsity sports for the Michigan Daily. She received the U.N. Correspondents Association Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs, the National Magazine Award for 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 the African wars. For coverage of U.S. foreign policy, she was named journalist of the year by the American Academy of Diplomacy for “distinguished reporting and analysis of international affairs ” and won the National Press Club Award and the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting. Wright has also been the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation grant.

Wright has been a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, Yale University, Duke University, Stanford University, the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of Southern California. She also lectures extensively around the United States and has been a television commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and MSNBC programs, including "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "This Week," “Nightline," the PBS Newshour, "Frontline," and "Larry King Live."

Books

• "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East (2008)
• Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam (revised in 2001)
• The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran (2000)
• Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World (1991) with Doyle McManus
• In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade (1989)

External links

• Robin Wright’s website
• Robin Wright’s articles in The Washington Post
• Booknotes interview with Wright on In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade, November 19, 1989.