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Graeme Wood
Born (1979-08-21) August 21, 1979 (age 45)
Polk County, Minnesota
EducationHarvard University (BA)
OccupationJournalist
WebsiteOfficial Website

Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer from United States for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.[1] Prior to his staff writer position he was a contributing editor to The Atlantic,[2] and he has also written for The Cambodia Daily,[3] The New Yorker,[4] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. He served as books editor of Pacific Standard.[3] He was awarded the 2015–2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations[5] and a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association.[6]

In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship,[7] for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State[8] and was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.[9][10]

Early life and education

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Wood was born on August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota, to John Kenneth Wood and Louise Ann Kwan.[11] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.[12] He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at Indiana University and Deep Springs College before transferring to Harvard College to study African-American Studies and Philosophy, graduating in 2001.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Graeme Wood | Department of Political Science". Department of Political Science. Yale. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Author page". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Graeme Wood | The Pearson Institute". thepearsoninstitute.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  4. ^ Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  5. ^ "Historical Roster of CFR's Edward R. Murrow Press Fellows". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  6. ^ "SAJA | South Asian Journalists Association - Reporting Fellowship Grant Winners". www.saja.org. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  7. ^ "The Chat with Governor General's Nonfiction Award Winner Graeme Wood". 49th Shelf, November 27, 2017
  8. ^ "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017
  9. ^ "Perry World House | Penn Global".
  10. ^ "The World Today: Lessons from ISIL, for Jihadists and their Enemies with Graeme Wood | Penn Global".
  11. ^ "Minnesota Birth Index". FamilySearch. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  12. ^ Wood, Graeme. "Richard Spencer Was My High-School Classmate". The Atlantic. No. June 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  13. ^ Adam A. Sofen (2000). "Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
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