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The Looming Tower

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 is a 2006 non-fiction book by Lawrence Wright, a journalist for The New Yorker. Wright examines the origins of the militant organization Al-Qaeda, the background for various terrorist attacks and how they were investigated, and the events that led to the September 11 attacks.

For the miniseries with the same title, see The Looming Tower (miniseries).

Author

Lawrence Wright

Chip Kidd (designer)

English

Non-fiction

Alfred A. Knopf (US)

2006

United States

Print (Hardcover)

480

978-0-375-41486-2

64592193

973.931 22

HV6432.7 .W75 2006

The book was a New York Times best-seller and won a number of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. A 10-episode television miniseries adaptation aired in 2018 on Hulu.

2006

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2006

New York Times Best Seller

2006

New York Times Notable Book of the Year

2006

New York Times Best Books of the Year

2006

IRE Award

2006 finalist

National Book Award

2006 magazine's Best Books of the Year

Time

2007

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

2007

Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

2007

J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

2007

Lionel Gelber Prize

2007 shortlist

Arthur Ross Book Award

2007 Literary Award (Research Nonfiction)

PEN Center USA

2009 50 Books for Our Times

Newsweek

at Open Library

The Looming Tower

(Retrieved April 8, 2009)

The Looming Tower Reviews at Metacritic

AuthorViews video interview about The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright Interview: Conversations with History; Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

Archived November 22, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

Lawrence Wright speaking at Princeton University on "Al Qaeda: Past, Present and Future". April 25, 2007

After Words interview with Wright on The Looming Tower, September 9, 2006