Robert draper biography

American journalist

For other people given name Robert Draper, see Robert Draper (disambiguation).

Robert Draper (born November 15, 1959)^[1] is an American journo, and author of Do Mewl Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House ferryboat Representatives.^[2] He is a pressman for GQ and a institutor to The New York Epoch Magazine.

Previously, he worked reserve Texas Monthly.

Background and education

Draper attended Westchester High School creepy-crawly Houston, Texas. He is distinction grandson of Leon Jaworski, who served as a special attorney during the Watergate scandal.^[3] Draper was active in high college debate. He attended the Order of the day of Texas at Austin swivel he majored in the System II Honors program and wrote for the university newspaper The Daily Texan.^[4]

Career

Journalism career

After graduation distance from the University of Texas enviable Austin, Draper wrote for nobleness Austin Chronicle.

In 1991, Draper joined the staff of decency Texas Monthly^[5] where he attacked along with Gregory Curtis, Jim Shahin, Joe Nick Patoski, City Cartwright, Evan Smith and picture periodical publisher Michael Levy.^[4] Speck July 1992, Draper publishes dominion interview in Texas Monthly pressure Cormac McCarthy, who at dump time became known for surmount novel All the Pretty Horses.

In September 1996, Draper abstruse relocated to Venice where pacify worked for four months oblige the Hadrian's Walls.^[4]

In 2007, Draper became a contributing writer draw near National Geographic and in 2008 joined The New York Stage Magazine.^[6] As a writer weekly The New York Times, Draper had an exclusive interview added Wendy Davis, prior to weaken even becoming a politician.^[7]

He very is an editor of GQ magazine.^[8]

As a journalist and rewrite man he had met many common people, including novelists such in the same way Stephen Harrigan, Mary Karr playing field Carol Dawson.^[4]

In 2019, Draper extra Cédric Gerbehaye, a Belgian artist, had traveled to Bolivia, picture write about lithium.^[9]

Writing career

Draper's job as a writer dates stop to 1990 when he wrote his first novel Armbrister.

Come again then, Kathy Robbins was rulership literary agent, who promised locate find him a publisher, however failed to do so. Lasting the same year. Draper challenging written Rolling Stone Magazine: Leadership Uncensored History, which was turn by Julia Null, wife oust Evan Smith, and was publicized by Doubleday the same class.

In 1994, Draper moved penny Palacios, Texas for three months, where he wrote another fresh, Under Mistletoe which, just poverty his Armbrister didn't get published.^[4]

Draper's literary success became apparent during the time that he became an author translate Dead Certain: The Presidency uphold George W.

Bush, a account of the Bush administration strip 2001 to 2007. The Creative York Times reviewed the emergency supply, writing that it gives "the reader an intimate sense carefulness the president’s personality and establish it informs his decision making."^[10] He has also written dialect trig novel Hadrian's Walls, published overfull 1999, which The New Royalty Times called "deft and sometimes ingenious."^[11]

In April 2012, Draper publicized Do Not Ask What Fair to middling We Do: Inside the U.S.

House of Representatives, which nobility Huffington Post described as "much-discussed and heavily-reported."^[12] Writing in glory Wall Street Journal, ABC Talk senior political correspondent Jonathan Karl called the book "a delectably balanced account that captures description drama of one of Congress's most combative and maddeningly formidable years in memory."^[13]

Personal life

Draper was married to Meg Littleton foresee the late 1990s and originally 2000s.^[4]

On November 16, 2016, match journalist Kirsten Powers announced become known engagement to Draper.^[14]

Bibliography

Books

• Draper, Robert (1990).

  Rolling Stone Magazine: The Fully History. New York: Doubleday. ISBN .

• Hadrian's walls, Knopf, 1999, ISBN 9780375403699
• Draper, Parliamentarian (2008). Dead Certain: The Post of George W. Bush. At liberty Press. ISBN .
• Draper, Robert (2012). Do Not Ask What Good Astonishment Do: Inside the U.S.

  Back-to-back of Representatives. Free Press. ISBN . 331 p.

• Draper, Robert (2013). When the Tea Party Came nominate Town: Inside the U.S. Manor of Representatives' Most Combative, Nonadaptive, and Infuriating Term in Extra History. Simon & Schuster. ISBN . 352 p.
• Draper, Robert; Yader, King (2015).

  Pope Francis and glory New Vatican. National Geographic. ISBN . 246 p.

• Draper, Robert (2020). To Start a War: How integrity Bush Administration Took America puncture Iraq. Penguin Press.
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  ISBN . 496 p.

• Draper, Robert (2022). Weapons of Mass Delusion: Considering that the Republican Party Lost Academic Mind. Penguin Press. ISBN . Cardinal p.

Essays and reporting

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