George Packer

George is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he writes about foreign affairs, American politics, and books. He is the author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which received several prizes and was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The New York Times Book Review. He is also the author of two novels, The Half Man and Central Square, and two works of non-fiction, The Village of Waiting and Blood of the Liberals, which won the 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He is the editor of a new two-volume edition of Orwell’s essays. His first play, “Betrayed,” based on a New Yorker article, won the Lucille Lortel Award for outstanding Off Broadway play in 2008. A collection of his essays, Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade, will be published in November 2009.