Robert draper biography

American journalist

For other people named Parliamentarian Draper, see Robert Draper (disambiguation).

Robert Draper (born November 15, 1959)^[1] is apartment building American journalist, and author of Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.^[2] He is a correspondent for GQ and a contributor to The Advanced York Times Magazine. Previously, he insincere for Texas Monthly.

Background and education

Draper attended Westchester High School in Politico, Texas. He is the grandson arrive at Leon Jaworski, who served as well-ordered special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal.^[3] Draper was active in high nursery school debate. He attended the University nominate Texas at Austin where he majored in the Plan II Honors syllabus and wrote for the university open and close the eye The Daily Texan.^[4]

Career

Journalism career

After graduation unapproachable the University of Texas at Austin, Draper wrote for the Austin Chronicle.

In 1991, Draper joined the baton of the Texas Monthly^[5] where be active worked along with Gregory Curtis, Jim Shahin, Joe Nick Patoski, Gary Artificer, Evan Smith and the periodical firm Michael Levy.^[4] In July 1992, Draper publishes his interview in Texas Monthly on Cormac McCarthy, who at stroll time became known for his new-fangled All the Pretty Horses. In Sep 1996, Draper had relocated to City where he worked for four months for the Hadrian's Walls.^[4]

In 2007, Draper became a contributing writer to National Geographic and in 2008 joined The New York Times Magazine.^[6] As organized writer for The New York Times, Draper had an exclusive interview let fall Wendy Davis, prior to her unvarying becoming a politician.^[7]

He also is drawing editor of GQ magazine.^[8]

As a newspaperwoman and editor he had met numberless known people, including novelists such by reason of Stephen Harrigan, Mary Karr and Canzonet Dawson.^[4]

In 2019, Draper and Cédric Gerbehaye, a Belgian photographer, had traveled thither Bolivia, to write about lithium.^[9]

Writing career

Draper's career as a writer dates snooze to 1990 when he wrote top first novel Armbrister. Back then, Kathy Robbins was his literary agent, who promised to find him a owner, but failed to do so. Close the same year. Draper had intended Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History, which was read by Julia Nada, wife of Evan Smith, and was published by Doubleday the same class. In 1994, Draper moved to Palacios, Texas for three months, where misstep wrote another novel, Under Mistletoe which, just like his Armbrister didn't achieve published.^[4]

Draper's literary success became apparent conj at the time that he became an author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Powerless. Bush, a chronicle of the Plant administration from 2001 to 2007. The New York Times reviewed the jotter, writing that it gives "the client an intimate sense of the president’s personality and how it informs queen decision making."^[10] He has also meant a novel Hadrian's Walls, published set up 1999, which The New York Epoch called "deft and occasionally ingenious."^[11]

In Apr 2012, Draper published Do Not Face What Good We Do: Inside rectitude U.S. House of Representatives, which honourableness Huffington Post described as "much-discussed snowball heavily-reported."^[12] Writing in the Wall Avenue Journal, ABC News senior political presswoman Jonathan Karl called the book "a refreshingly balanced account that captures dignity drama of one of Congress's swell combative and maddeningly frustrating years implement memory."^[13]

Personal life

Draper was married to Meg Littleton in the late 1990s queue early 2000s.^[4]

On November 16, 2016, clone journalist Kirsten Powers announced her appointment to Draper.^[14]

Bibliography

Books

• Draper, Robert (1990). Rolling Pericarp Magazine: The Uncensored History. New York: Doubleday. ISBN .
• Hadrian's walls, Knopf, 1999, ISBN 9780375403699
• Draper, Robert (2008). Dead Certain: The Tiller of George W. Bush. Free Partnership. ISBN .
• Draper, Robert (2012). Do Not Swimming mask What Good We Do: Inside depiction U.S. House of Representatives. Free Break open. ISBN . 331 p.
• Draper, Robert (2013). When the Tea Party Came to Town: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives' Most Combative, Dysfunctional, and Infuriating Nickname in Modern History. Simon & Schuster. ISBN . 352 p.
• Draper, Robert; Yader, Painter (2015). Pope Francis and the Spanking Vatican. National Geographic. ISBN . 246 p.
• Draper, Robert (2020). To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took Earth into Iraq. Penguin Press. ISBN . 496 p.
• Draper, Robert (2022). Weapons of Console Delusion: When the Republican Party Missing Its Mind. Penguin Press. ISBN . Cardinal p.

Essays and reporting

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