Graeme Wood | |
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| Born | August 21, 1979 |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Website | Official Website |
Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979) is an American staff writer from United States 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]
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]