Graeme Wood (journalist)

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Graeme Wood
Born (1979-08-21) August 21, 1979 (age 44)
Education Harvard University (BA)
OccupationJournalist
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Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer 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]

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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

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]

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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. 1 2 "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. https://global.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse
  10. https://global.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse/event/world-today-lessons-isil-jihadists-and-their-enemies-graeme-wood
  11. "Minnesota Birth Index" . 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.