George Packer

George Packer is the author of "The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), which was named one of that year’s ten best books by the New York Times and won both the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award and an Overseas Press Club book award. His book "Blood of the Liberals" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000), a three-generational nonfiction history of his family and American liberalism in the twentieth century, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Packer has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2003, and has contributed numerous articles, essays, and reviews on foreign affairs, American politics, and literature to the New York Times Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones, Harper’s, and other publications. He taught writing at Harvard, Bennington, and Columbia, served in the Peace Corps in Togo, and was a 2001-02 Guggenheim Fellow.