Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright and a staff writer for The New Yorker. His 2006 history of al-Qaeda, “The Looming Tower: al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” was on the New York Times bestseller list for eight weeks, was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, among other honors. Wright co-wrote the 1998 film “The Siege,” which depicts events eerily similar to those occurring in the U.S. after 9/11. In 2006, his one-man play “My Trip to al-Qaeda,” based on the book, enjoyed a sold-out, six-week run in Soho. Wright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Filmography

• 2026Musk — Producer
• God Save Texas — Self, Executive Producer
• 2020Kingdom of Silence — Executive Producer
• The Looming Tower — Book, Executive Producer, Story, Creator
• 2015Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief — Self - Interviewee, Producer, Novel
• 2000Noriega: God's Favorite — Writer, Co-Producer
• 1998The Siege — Screenplay
• 1996Forgotten Sins — Writer

Appearances as themselves (4)

• Live from the LBJ Library with Mark Updegrove — Self
• 2018Three Identical Strangers — Self
• The New Yorker Presents — Self
• 2010My Trip to Al-Qaeda — Himself