Graeme Wood

Journalist

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Birthday August 21, 1979

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Birthplace Polk County, Minnesota

Age 44 years old

Nationality United States

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1979

Graeme Charles Arthur Wood (born August 21, 1979, in Polk County, Minnesota) is an American staff writer for The Atlantic and a lecturer in political science at Yale University since 2014.

Prior to his staff writer position he was a contributing editor to The Atlantic, and he has also written for The Cambodia Daily, The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The New Republic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Culture+Travel, The Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune.

He served as books editor of ''Pacific Standard.

1997

He grew up in Dallas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1997.

2001

He spent a year studying Arabic Language at American University in Cairo, and also studied central Asian languages at Indiana University and Deep Springs College before transferring to Harvard College to study African-American Studies and Philosophy, graduating in 2001.

2015

'' He was awarded the 2015-2016 Edward R. Murrow Press Fellowship of the Council on Foreign Relations and a 2009 Reporting Fellowship Grant from the South Asian Journalists Association.

2017

In 2017, he won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, which he was eligible for due to holding Canadian citizenship, for his book The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State.

Wood was born in Polk County, Minnesota.