Lawrence Wright Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. God’s Favorite (2000)
  2. Metal Sharpens Metal (2014)
  3. The End of October (2020)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. City Children, Country Summer (1979)
  2. Perspective In Perspective (1983)
  3. In the New World (1987)
  4. The Peace Report (1993)
  5. Saints and Sinners (1993)
  6. Remembering Satan (1994)
  7. Twins (1997)
  8. The Looming Tower (2006)
  9. Character Design for Mobile Devices (2006)
  10. Going Clear (2013)
  11. Thirteen Days in September (2014)
  12. The Terror Years (2016)
  13. God Save Texas (2018)
  14. The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (2021)

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God’s Favorite

In this fascinating work of historical fiction, Pulitzer Prize winning author Lawrence Wright captures all the gripping drama and black humor of Panama during the final, nerve racking days of its legendary dictator, Manuel Antonio Noriega. It is Christmas 1989, and Tony Noriega’s demons are finally beginning to catch up with him. A former friend of President Bush, Fidel Castro, and Oliver North, this universally reviled strongman is on the run from the U.S. Congress, the Justice Department, the Colombian mob, and a host of political rivals. In his desperation, he seeks salvation from any and all quarters God, Satan, a voodoo priest, even the spirits of his murdered enemies. But with a million dollar price on his head and 20,000 American soldiers on his trail, Noriega is fast running out of options. Drawn from a historical record more dramatic than even the most artful spy novel, God’s Favorite is a riveting and darkly comic fictional account of the events that occurred in Panama from 1985 to the dictator’s capture in 1989. With an award winning journalist’s eye for detail, Lawrence Wright leads the reader toward a dramatic face off in the Vatican embassy, where Noriega confronts his psychological match in the papal nuncio.

Saints and Sinners

In this fascinating book about religion in America, one of this country’s most probing yet sympathetic journalists puts forth stories not only of real grace but of despair, sexual scandal, and attempted murder. Lawrence Wright’s Saints and Sinners are Jimmy Swaggart, who preached a hellfire gospel with rock ‘n’ roll abandon before he was caught with a, prostitute in a seedy motel; Anton LaVey, the kitsch loving, gleefully fraudulent founder of the First Church of Satan; Madalyn Murray O’Hair, whose litigious atheism sometimes resembled a brand of faith; Matthew Fox, the Dominican priest who has aroused the fury of the Vatican for dismissing the doctrine of original sin and denouncing the church as a dysfunctional family; Walker Railey, the rising star of Dallas’s Methodist church, who, at the pinnacle of his success, was suspected of attempting to murder his wife; and Will Campbell, the eccentric liberal Southern Baptist preacher whose challenges to established ways of thinking have made him a legend in his own time. By letting us listen to their voices and see the individuals in all their complexities, Lawrence Wright has written a richly fascinating book about the passions, triumphs, and failures of the life of faith.

Remembering Satan

In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of ‘recovered memories’ had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff’s department. Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. As it follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals. Remembering Satan gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.

Twins

A New York Times Notable Book for 1998Critical acclaim for Lawrence Wright’sA Rhone Poulenc Science Prize Finalist’This is a book about far more than Twins: it is about what Twins can tell us about ourselves.’ The New York Times’With plenty of amazing stories about the similarities and differences of Twins, Wright respectfully shows, too, how their special circumstance in life challenges our notions of individuality. A truly fascinating but sometimes spooky Mengele’s experiments with Twins at Auschwitz figure among Wright’s examples study.’ American Library Association’Like so much of Wright’s work, this book is a pleasure to read. Because he writes so well, without pushing a particular point of view, he soon has you pondering questions you have tended to comfortably ignore.’ Austin American Statesman’Informative and entertaining…
a provocative subject well considered by a talented journalist.’ Kirkus Reviews

The Looming Tower

A sweeping narrative history of the events leading to 9/11, a groundbreaking look at the people and ideas, the terrorist plans and the Western intelligence failures that culminated in the assault on America. Lawrence Wright’s remarkable book is based on five years of research and hundreds of interviews that he conducted in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, England, France, Germany, Spain, and the United States. The Looming Tower achieves an unprecedented level of intimacy and insight by telling the story through the interweaving lives of four men: the two leaders of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri; the FBI’s counterterrorism chief, John O’Neill; and the former head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal. As these lives unfold, we see revealed: the crosscurrents of modern Islam that helped to radicalize Zawahiri and bin Laden…
the birth of al Qaeda and its unsteady development into an organization capable of the American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and the attack on the USS Cole…
O’Neill’s heroic efforts to track al Qaeda before 9/11, and his tragic death in the World Trade towers…
Prince Turki’s transformation from bin Laden’s ally to his enemy…
the failures of the FBI, CIA, and NSA to share intelligence that might have prevented the 9/11 attacks. The Looming Tower broadens and deepens our knowledge of these signal events by taking us behind the scenes. Here is Sayyid Qutb, founder of the modern Islamist movement, lonely and despairing as he meets Western culture up close in 1940s America; the privileged childhoods of bin Laden and Zawahiri; family life in the al Qaeda compounds of Sudan and Afghanistan; O’Neill’s high wire act in balancing his all consuming career with his equally entangling personal life he was living with three women, each of them unaware of the others’ existence and the nitty gritty of turf battles among U.S. intelligence agencies. Brilliantly conceived and written, The Looming Tower draws all elements of the story into a galvanizing narrative that adds immeasurably to our understanding of how we arrived at September 11, 2001. The richness of its new information, and the depth of its perceptions, can help us deal more wisely and effectively with the continuing terrorist threat.

Character Design for Mobile Devices

Mobile gaming on cell phones and portable consoles is a huge business, and many characters have become design icons. However, the physical limitations of these small screens, and the technological challenges of different gaming platforms, mean that designers have had to become experts at creating characters with just a few points of light. Creating art for these devices is a completely different process than used when creating art for highly sophisticated 3D games. The difference between pixel art and art created for 3D games is two fold: there are practical considerations that must be addressed as well as aesthetic considerations. This book will cover both subjects as well as examining the evolution of gaming graphics explaining the significance of the changes we’ve seen in game artistry and what we can learn from examining successful icons and graphics created in the past. Character Design for Mobile Devices looks at the techniques, the inspiration, the technologies, and the creative challenges behind designing characters with only a few pixels at your disposal. Filled with: Practical and inspirational tutorials that enable you to clearly understand the processes involved in creating art for mobile devices Timely and inspirational information Features over 400 full color images to inspire and instruct

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