George Packer
George Packer (* August 13, 1960 in Santa Clara, California) is an American author and journalist. He is mainly known for his journalistic work for The New Yorker, whose focus is the foreign policy of the United States. His non-fiction book The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America was in 2013 awarded the National Book Award in the nonfiction and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Childhood and education
Packer was born in 1960 in California. Packers parents Herbert and Nancy Packer, born Huddleston both worked as a scientist at Stanford University. His maternal grandfather, George Huddleston and an uncle were temporary members of the House of Representatives. Packer was educated at Yale College and completed his studies in 1982. It was used briefly for the Peace Corps in Togo. His sister Ann Packer is also a writer. George Packer is married in second marriage with Laura Secor.
Career
Packers essays and articles have been published, among others, in Boston Review, The Nation, World Affairs, Harper 's, The New York Times and The New Yorker. He was also a columnist for Mother Jones and he is member of the editorial team since Yorker The New.
Packer was also Holtzbrinck Fellow Class of Fall 2009 at the American Academy in Berlin.
His non-fiction book The Assassins ' Gate: America in Iraq examines the events that led to the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and he later reported on further developments in this country. Packer heard while the people who supported the invasion. He goes in detail on the biographies of three people: an industrial worker from Youngstown, Ohio, which is as a social worker, a biodiesel entrepreneur from North Carolina, a lobbyist in Washington. Similarly detail he goes into people who are affected by the collapse of the real estate market in Tampa, Florida or on the Entrepreneur Peter Thiel, who played a key role in the success of PayPal and Facebook. Interspersed between these longer reports are ten short biographical sketches of famous Americans like the rapper Jay -Z, Republican Newt Gingrich and the restaurant owner Alice Waters.
Awards and nominations
- 2013 National Book Award in the nonfiction category.
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award: Nominated in the category of nonfiction.
Publications
- The Village of Waiting ( 1988). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ( Farrar 1st edition, 2001). Pb. ISBN 0-374-52780-6
- The Half Man (1991). Random House, ISBN 0-394-58192- X
- Central Square (1998). Graywolf Press, ISBN 1-55597-277-2
- Blood of the Liberals ( 2000). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-25142-8
- The Fight is for Democracy: Winning the War of Ideas in America and the World (2003, as editor). Harper Perennial. Pb. ISBN 0-06-053249-1
- The Assassins ' Gate: America in Iraq ( 2005). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-29963-3
- Betrayed: A Play (2008). Faber & Faber
- Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade ( 2009). ISBN 978-0-374-17572-6
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America ( 2013). ISBN 978-0-374-10241-8