George Packer is a journalist, novelist and staff writer for The New Yorker. Packer’s “The Unwinding” was a recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for Nonfiction. His book “The Assassins’ Gate” was named one of the 10 best books of 2005 by The New York Times Book Review and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Packer is a 2001 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award recipient for “The Blood of Liberals.” He wrote about his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa in his book “The Village of Waiting” and has published articles, essays and reviews in The New York Times Magazine, Dissent, Mother Jones and Harper’s. He was a Guggenheim Fellow and has taught writing at Harvard, Bennington and Columbia. His most recent book is “Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century” (Knopf).
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