George Packer
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George Packer at the 2013 Texas Book Festival
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| Born |
August 13, 1960 Santa Clara, California |
| Occupation | Journalist, novelist, and playwright |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale College |
| Notable works | The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq |
| Notable awards | National Book Award for Nonfiction in November 2013 for The Unwinding |
| Spouse | Michele Millon (?-?) Laura Secor (present) |
| Relatives | Nancy (née Huddleston) and Herbert Packer (parents) |
George Packer (born August 13, 1960) is an American journalist, novelist, and playwright. He is best known for his writings for The New Yorker about U.S. foreign policy and for his book The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. Packer also wrote The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, covering the history of America from 1978 to 2012. In November 2013, The Unwinding received the National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Packer was born in Santa Clara, California. His parents taught at Stanford University: his mother, Nancy Packer (née Huddleston), was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program and later professor of English, and his father, Herbert L. Packer, was a distinguished professor of law, and the author of numerous books and articles. Packer's maternal grandfather, George Huddleston, Sr., had served eleven successive terms (1915–1937) representing Alabama's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. His uncle, George Huddleston, Jr., succeeded to his father's seat in the House of Representatives from 1954 to 1964. Packer's sister, Ann Packer, also is a writer. Their father's background was Jewish and their mother's Christian. Packer is married to writer and editor Laura Secor and was married to Michele Millon.
Packer graduated from Yale College in 1982, where he resided at Calhoun College. He served in the Peace Corps in Togo.
His essays and articles have appeared in Boston Review, The Nation, World Affairs, Harper's, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, among other publications. Packer was a columnist for Mother Jones and has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since May 2003.
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