Staff writer for The New Yorker. Author of The Looming Tower, Going Clear, and God Save Texas. Screenwriter, playwright, keyboard player for Austin band WhoDo.
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REDEMPTION by @lawrence_wright is a powerful and startling account of the unsparing connection between a convent of cloistered nuns and the condemned women on Texas’s death row.
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See our review!
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Getting the cover of Kirkus was a huge surprise and a great honor.
With THE LOOMING TOWER and GOING CLEAR, Lawrence Wright established himself as one of our great nonfiction writers. He's on the cover of our Nov. 1 issue to discuss his latest book, REDEMPTION. ow.ly/iUmi5102ax8 @lawrence_wright @AAKnopf #nonfiction
Thanks, Morning Joe, for this wonderful discussion of my new book, REDEMPTION. Hope you'll check it out. yahoo.com/news/videos/redemp…
Nice surprise from the editors at NYT. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/books…
The Guardian has this wonderful offering on pub day for REDEMPTION. theguardian.com/books/2026/o…
It's pub day at last for REDEMPTION: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row." I was greeted by this thoughtful interview with Texas Monthly's Skip Hollandsworth. texasmonthly.com/news-politi…
Pub day tomorrow. This book is dear to me. I hope it will find readers to support it. If you're on one of the towns on this tour card, come down and say hello.
Lovely interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep about "REDEMPTION." tomorrow is pub day.
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"Wright’s latest master class in narrative nonfiction." Tuesday is pub day!
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“’Reporters are skeptics by nature’ is the first line in Lawrence Wright’s Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row. It may be Wright’s most personal work of journalism... will challenge readers’ assumptions about guilt, justice, and transformation.”
Redemption, Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is one of the great narrative journalists of our time so it is fitting—and important—that he now turns his attention to one of America’s most urgent moral issues: capital punishment.
A few years ago I was dropping off my son and his family at the Austin airport when I noticed some light stanchions in the distance. They seemed out of place, so I wondered over to look. It took me back twenty years ago...
It infuriates me to see the Kennedy Center threatened with demolition. It was the site of one of my fondest memories. Let's keep politics out of this cultural treasure.
Reading the audiobook of REDEMPTION: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row. One of the most moving stories I’ve ever encountered. Out in October.
Filmmaker Rick Linklater's side hustle: creating his own art museum called 9 Boxes. All done in laminated wood. An exuberant spectacle and a singular vision. (Some of the shapes derive from photos he took of gum on NYC sidewalks.)
We loss Pat Oliphant the most irreverent man I ever knew. He’s modeling the clay of the lady cannoneer in downtown Austin.
A memorable night a decade ago when Marcia Ball and Floyd Domino traded licks on my piano. A memorable night a decade ago when Floyd Domino and Marcia Ball traded licks on my piano. youtube.com/watch?v=IXBvQ5IL…