Lawrence Wright

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.

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

I'm so grateful for this very generous review of REDEMPTION. Few reviews make the author feel not only read but seen. Thanks for this. https://t.co/gXDD8QjBNC

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

What these profiles show is that Texas has a bundle of talented writers. Proud to be one of them, even as the "elder statesman." https://t.co/M9hFnEK5U9

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

Maybe Melissa Lucio will be spared execution after the judge in her case declared her 'actually innocent' but the courts ignored him and the prosecutor who said exculpatory evidence was withheld in her trial.

[Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff]

Thanks to the blue wave, Texas's highest criminal court "is losing its most vehement opponent of 'actual innocence,' a legal concept that allows for not just an overturned conviction but also full exoneration."

An important new story by @mikehalltexas:

https://t.co/FI5vyNNJ4V

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

I'll be in conversation with Kathy Blackwell at Texas Book Festival on Sunday at 3 in the Capital Auditorium talking about my latest, REDEMPTION. Faith, sin, murder, piety, life and death--we'll clean out the kitchen on this one. https://t.co/or6hu8g8le

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

Skip Hollandsworth is the dean of Texas writers so I was honored to be another trophy on his wall. https://t.co/8c44klLAk0

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

@casinobaseball no.

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

Nice surprise from the editors at NYT. https://t.co/dPNEGN1q9U

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

My mission in life is collecting great stories, and "Going Clear" was one of the best. https://t.co/k8IdfeSPRP

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

I could talk to NPR's Steve Inskeep about any thing but I was particularly happy to have to opportunity to talk about my new book on the 7 women on Texas death row and the nuns who minister to them--and mirror them in surprising ways. https://t.co/3w1QkJA0xm

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

happy to see REDEMPTION is #1 of new releases in criminal law on Amazon. So that's a good start, right?

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

'They killed us'

Taking a minute today to honor the incredible bravery and commitment to journalism of Novaya Gazeta, whose shuttering marks the true end of freedom of speech in Putin's Russia https://t.co/E16ZDIk9Ic

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

We're fortunate to have David Brown at Texas Standard who hosts such penetrating interviews. Thanks for this, Mr. Brown! https://t.co/8NjLW0kTxQ

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

When I began researching REDEMPTION I didn't oppose the death penalty, but in telling the stories of the 7 women on Texas death row I was shaken by the absence of justice in so many cases. No state can claim the moral authority to take a life. https://t.co/wkHnFPiBGe

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

@casinobaseball That reference comes from p. 12, not 32. The Sanctified Sisters moved to Washington in 1808. that's not the date of the letter to Susan B. Anthony, which came after the women became involved in suffrage. Sorry if it was unclear.

[Bookreporter @Bookreporter]

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.

@AAKnopf @penguinrandom @randomhouse

See our review!
https://t.co/ghYkliNYJx

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

Getting the cover of Kirkus was a huge surprise and a great honor.

[Kirkus Reviews @KirkusReviews]

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. https://t.co/uy2SuaTTCy @lawrence_wright @AAKnopf #nonfiction

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

Thanks, Morning Joe, for this wonderful discussion of my new book, REDEMPTION. Hope you'll check it out. https://t.co/LBT0VFxb5g

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

NYC friends come hear my discussion of REDEMPTION with Preet Bharara tomorrow night at 92nd St. Y.

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

The Guardian has this wonderful offering on pub day for REDEMPTION. https://t.co/yJBTI1U0Bi

[Lawrence Wright @lawrence_wright]

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. https://t.co/8c44klLAk0