Evan Wright, a author and journalist whose 2004 e-book on the Iraq Struggle, Era Kill, was tailored into an HBO miniseries, died July 12 in Los Angeles by suicide, his household confirmed.
Born in Ohio, Wright earned a level from Vassar School earlier than coming into journalism. Within the mid-‘90s, Wright labored for Hustler, serving as leisure editor and reviewer. He later wrote for Self-importance Honest and Rolling Stone, growing a knack for immersion journalism, spending lengthy intervals with folks or a subculture to assemble data.
Wright coated Neo-Nazis, organized crime figures, and others, however his best-known work got here on account of his army reporting. Embedded with the U.S. Marines in the course of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, his accounts of the battle for Rolling Stone earned Wright a Nationwide Journal Award for Reporting.
It additionally led to his e-book, Era Kill, a chronicle of a small group of troopers’ expertise within the invasion. The e-book was tailored into an HBO miniseries written by David Simon and Ed Burns, creators of The Wire, and was nominated for seven Emmys, successful three.
Wright’s different work included Hella Nation, which explored many subcultures all through america, and American Desperado, written about drug smuggler Jon Roberts and tailored into the documentary Cocaine Cowboys.
His honor included the Los Angeles Occasions E book Prize, two Nationwide Journal Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas E book Prize from the Columbia College Faculty of Journalism, and the Basic Wallace M. Greene, Jr. Award, amongst others.
Wright was a showrunner on the 2016 mini-series, Harley and the Davidsons, concerning the bike firm. His tv credit additionally embrace Homeland, Homecoming, The Bridge, The Man within the Excessive Citadel, and Soiled John.
In a put up on social media final week, Wright stated he started engaged on a e-book in 1982 about his childhood in a government-run youth rehabilitation middle. That led to him being featured in Teen Torture Inc., a three-part docuseries on HBO Max about such establishments, launched the day earlier than his dying.
Survivors embrace his spouse, Kelli Wright, and three kids, Carter, Evan, and Kennedy, a sister, Nora, and a brother, Walter.
