Lawrence Wright is an American writer and journalist, who is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and a 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.

Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He has won a Pulitzer Prize and three National Magazine Awards. His latest book, The Human Scale, is a sweeping, timely thriller, in which a Palestinian-American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. According to The New York Times, "Wright succeeds in this complex, deeply felt work."

He is the author of 11 nonfiction books. His book about the rise of al-Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 was published to immediate and widespread acclaim. It has been translated into 25 languages and has won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.