Graeme Wood (journalist)

Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer for The Atlantic. Prior to that he was a contributing editor there[1] and has written for The New Yorker,[2] The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. Wood works also as a lecturer in political science at Yale University.[3]

Graeme Wood
BornAugust 21, 1979
Polk County, Minnesota
Alma materHarvard University

Wood was born in Polk County, Minnesota.[4] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.[5] 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.[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]

References
  1. "Author page". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  2. Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  3. "Author page". Yale University. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  4. "Minnesota Birth Index". Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. Wood, Graeme. "Richard Spencer Was My High-School Classmate". The Atlantic. No. June 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  6. Adam A. Sofen (2000). "Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
  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.


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