Lawrence Wright began writing for Texas Monthly in 1980 and left in 1992 to become a staff writer for the New Yorker, a role he still holds. His history of Al Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006), spent eight weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and was translated into 25 languages. The book won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Wright’s one-man play, My Trip to Al-Qaeda, was made into a documentary film that aired on HBO. The book later became a miniseries on Hulu starring Jeff Daniels and Alec Baldwin. Wright’s seventh book, Going Cl...