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]
In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.[4]
Early life and education
Wood was born in Polk County, Minnesota.[5] He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.[6] He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo 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.[7]
Notable articles
- Scrubbed: The World of Black-Ops Reputation Management – New York magazine, June 2013
- Hell Is an Understatement – The New Republic, June 2014
- How Gangs Took Over Prisons – The Atlantic, September 2014
- What ISIS Really Wants – The Atlantic, March 2015
- Donald Trump and the Apocalypse; Is Rome really ISIS’s “ultimate trophy”? – The Atlantic, February 2016
- The United States is Now in the Midst of an Extended Moral Holiday - The Atlantic, June 2020[8]
- The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse - The Atlantic, November 2020
- America Has Forgotten How to Forgive - The Atlantic, March 19, 2021
References
- "Author page". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- Graeme Wood (2008). "Letter from Pashmul: Policing Afghanistan: An ethnic-minority force enters a Taliban stronghold". The New Yorker. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- "Author page". Yale University. Archived from the original on March 23, 2015. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
- "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
- "Minnesota Birth Index". Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- Wood, Graeme. "Richard Spencer Was My High-School Classmate". The Atlantic. No. June 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
- Adam A. Sofen (2000). "Transfers From Deep Springs College Face Unique Transition". Retrieved April 1, 2015.
- Wood, Graeme. "The United States is Now in the Midst of an Extended Moral Holiday". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
The United States is now in the midst of an extended moral holiday, in both senses. I see many manifestations of this moral holiday converging, and two in particular: first, the orgy of violence on display by supposed law-enforcement officers long before the current protests began; and second, the looting, vandalism, and other forms of public lawbreaking by rioters at the fringe of the earliest protests.