Headshots: Profiles, Essays, and Reflections
Okt 2025 · Knopf
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Thirty never-before collected essays—many of them profiles—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and The Plague Year. These brilliant pieces reveal the broad spectrum of Wright’s cultural and political observations over the past thirty five years
Spanning more than thirty five years of Lawrence Wright’s reporting for The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone and other magazines, these pieces remind us what a brilliant observer Wright has been of institutions, of political maneuverings, and of people—dangerous, eccentric, or beloved.
Some of the essays included:
ORPHANS OF JONESTOWN (1993): A profile of Jim Jones’ two sons. In 1978, when they left Jonestown to play in a basketball tournament, their father ordered the deaths of everyone they knew and loved, leaving them alone in a society uncomprehending of their experience.
A RAPIST’S HOMECOMING (1995): The ethical dilemma of a prison therapist, concerned that her patient—about to be released—could attack again.
A LIVING DOLL (1988): A very personal column. How the author relates to his 5-year-old daughter through her dolls and stuffed animals.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1985): An incisive look at the 1960’s and 1970’s literary icon.
CAPTURED ON FILM (2006): Dissident filmmakers in Syria.
SPACE CADET (1981): How a sanitary engineer combined her expertise and career with her love of space exploration and NASA.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE COURTOOM (2022): Should animals have legal rights?
And many others: A profile of the great spitball pitcher, Gaylord Perry; a look at how a Pentecostal Texas cattle farmer and an orthodox rabbi from Jerusalem come together over the End of Days; a 2006 essays detailing an attack in Gaza that mirrors the tragedies occurring today; a profile of Jamaal Khashoggi; one of Jimmy Carter; and a group of essays that deal with Wright’s life as a father.
This is an important collection that will demand attention, and a stirring overview of an extraordinary career.
Spanning more than thirty five years of Lawrence Wright’s reporting for The New Yorker, Texas Monthly, Rolling Stone and other magazines, these pieces remind us what a brilliant observer Wright has been of institutions, of political maneuverings, and of people—dangerous, eccentric, or beloved.
Some of the essays included:
ORPHANS OF JONESTOWN (1993): A profile of Jim Jones’ two sons. In 1978, when they left Jonestown to play in a basketball tournament, their father ordered the deaths of everyone they knew and loved, leaving them alone in a society uncomprehending of their experience.
A RAPIST’S HOMECOMING (1995): The ethical dilemma of a prison therapist, concerned that her patient—about to be released—could attack again.
A LIVING DOLL (1988): A very personal column. How the author relates to his 5-year-old daughter through her dolls and stuffed animals.
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RICHARD BRAUTIGAN (1985): An incisive look at the 1960’s and 1970’s literary icon.
CAPTURED ON FILM (2006): Dissident filmmakers in Syria.
SPACE CADET (1981): How a sanitary engineer combined her expertise and career with her love of space exploration and NASA.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE COURTOOM (2022): Should animals have legal rights?
And many others: A profile of the great spitball pitcher, Gaylord Perry; a look at how a Pentecostal Texas cattle farmer and an orthodox rabbi from Jerusalem come together over the End of Days; a 2006 essays detailing an attack in Gaza that mirrors the tragedies occurring today; a profile of Jamaal Khashoggi; one of Jimmy Carter; and a group of essays that deal with Wright’s life as a father.
This is an important collection that will demand attention, and a stirring overview of an extraordinary career.
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LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, a screenwriter, and the author of ten books of nonfiction, including The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas, and one previous novel, God's Favorite. His books have received many honors, including a Pulitzer Prize for The Looming Tower. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.
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