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Lawrence Wright (other)
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Lawrence Wright is an author. Lawrence Wright may also refer to: * Lawrence Wright (American football) (born 1973), former American football player in the National Football League * Lawrence Wright (composer) (1888–1964), British popular music composer and publisher * Lawrence Wright (cricketer) (born 1940), English cricketer * Lawrence Wright (Royal Navy officer) (died 1713), naval commodore * Lawrence A. Wright (1927–2000), judge of the United States Tax Court See also * Larry Wright (other) Larry Wright may refer to: * Larry Wright (cartoonist) (1940–2017), cartoonist known for his editorial cartoons * Larry Wright (ice hockey) (born 1951), retired professional ice hockey player * Larry Wright (basketball) (born 1954), head coach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright (born August 2, 1947) is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, and fellow at the Center for Law and Security at the New York University School of Law. Wright is best known as the author of the 2006 nonfiction book '' Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11''. Wright is also known for his work with documentarian Alex Gibney who directed film versions of Wright's one man show ''My Trip to Al-Qaeda'' and his book '' Going Clear''. His 2020 novel, ''The End of October'', a thriller about a pandemic, was released in April 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, to generally positive reviews. Background and education Wright graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, Texas, in 1965 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2009. He is a graduate of Tulane University and taught English at the American University in Cairo (from which he was awarded a Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics in 1969) in Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Wright (American Football)
Lawrence D. Wright, III (born September 6, 1973) is an American former college and professional football player who was a safety in the National Football League (NFL) for two seasons during the 1990s. Wright played college football for the University of Florida, where he was a member of a national championship team. Thereafter, he played professionally for the Cincinnati Bengals of the NFL. Early years Wright was born in Miami, Florida in 1973.Pro-Football-Reference.com, Players Lawrence Wright Retrieved July 9, 2010. He attended North Miami High School and Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania.databaseFootball.com, Players Lawrence Wright. Retrieved June 3, 2010. College career Wright accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Steve Spurrier's Florida Gators football team from 1993 to 1996. 2011 Florida Gators Football Media Guide'', University Athletic Association, Gainesvill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Wright (composer)
Frederick Lawrence Wright (15 February 1888 – 19 May 1964) was a British songwriter, music publisher, and the founder of the music journal ''Melody Maker''. He used the ''pseudonyms'' Horatio Nicholls and Everett Lynton for his songwriting activities. Biography Lawrence Wright was born in Leicester, where his father, Charles Wright, taught violin and ran a market stall selling instruments and sheet music. After leaving school aged 12, he worked for a printing company before joining a concert party in Eastbourne as a violinist and singer. He returned to Leicester and in 1906 set up his own market stall to sell music, including his own composition, "Down by the Stream", which became successful. In 1910, he heard a street singer perform "Don't Go Down the Mine, Daddy". He bought the rights to the song, which he published some weeks later following the Whitehaven mining disaster, in which 136 men were killed; the song reportedly sold a million copies.Richard Anthony Baker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Wright (cricketer)
Lawrence Wright (born 11 May 1940) is a former English cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...er. He was a right-handed batsman who played for Hertfordshire. He was born in Hertford. Wright, who represented the team in the Minor Counties Championship between 1960 and 1972, made a single List A appearance for the team, during the 1964 Gillette Cup. From the middle order, he scored 7 runs. External links * 1940 births Living people English cricketers Hertfordshire cricketers Sportspeople from Hertford {{England-cricket-bio-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Wright (Royal Navy Officer)
Lawrence Wright (died 1713), was a commodore with the English Royal Navy. Early career Wright is first mentioned as lieutenant aboard ''Baltimore'' in 1665. In 1666, he was on board , flagship of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle. With this ship he took part in two naval engagements of the Second Anglo–Dutch War: the Four Days' Battle and the St. James's Day Battle. Captain and commodore Wright is said to have been almost continuously employed during the next twenty years of peace and war, but the details of his services cannot be accurately traced. Those given by Charnock are not entirely trustworthy and some of them appear very doubtful. He is said to have taken up the post of captain from 1672. On the accession of James II of England in 1685, Wright was appointed to command the yacht ''Mary''. In March 1687 was moved into , which carried Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, to Jamaica. Albemarle died within a year of his taking up the governorship and Wright re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparatory & high schools * Lawrence Academy at Groton, a preparatory school in Groton, Massachusetts, United States * Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, a high school in Pakistan * Lawrence School, Lovedale, a high school in India * The Lawrence School, Sanawar, a high school in India Research laboratories * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States * Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States People * Lawrence (given name), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (surname), including a list of people with the name * Lawrence (band), an American soul-pop group * Lawrence (judge royal) (died after 1180), Hungarian nobleman, Judge royal 1164–1172 * Lawrence (musician), Lawrence Hayward (born 1961), British musician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |