George Packer writes for the New Yorker and lives in Brooklyn. The Assassin’s Gate, his celebrated account of how America convinced itself to go to war with Iraq, is published by Faber and won the Helen Bernstein Book Award and an Overseas Press Club’s book award

He is also the author of The Village of Waiting, about his experience of Africa, and Blood of the Liberals,a history of his family and of twentieth-century American liberalism.