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'Generation Kill' author and award-winning journalist Evan Wright dies at 59
Evan Wright, a writer and journalist whose 2004 book about the Iraq war, Generation Kill, was adapted into an HBO miniseries, died by suicide on July 12 in Los Angeles, his family confirmed.
Wright was born in Ohio and earned a degree from Vassar College before turning to journalism. In the mid-1990s, Wright worked for Hustler, where he was entertainment editor and reviewer. He later wrote for Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, where he developed a talent for immersive journalism, spending extended periods of time with people or a subculture to gather information.
Wright has written about neo-Nazis, organized crime figures and others, but his best-known work came from his military reporting. He served with the U.S. Marines during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and his coverage of the war for Rolling Stone won him a National Magazine Award for Reporting.
