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Evan Wright, ‘Generation Kill’ Author and Rolling Stone Contributor, Dead at 59

Evan Wright, National Magazine Award-winning journalist, 'Generation Kill' author and Rolling Stone contributor, has died at the age of 59.

Journalist reported from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq, profiled Shakira and Quentin Tarantino, and penned true crime epics during tenure at Rolling Stone Evan Wright, the National Magazine Award-winning journalist and longtime Rolling Stone contributor whose reporting on the Iraq War served as the basis for the book and television series Generation Kill, has died at the age of 59. During Wright’s time at Rolling Stone, he also penned features on Shakira, Quentin Tarantino, and female boxer Lucia Rijker, investigated the secret life of sorority girls at Ohio State University, reported from the anarchist underground, and detailed the little-known circumstances behind Jimi Hendrix’s mob kidnapping; the latter was an excerpt from the book American Desperado, which Wright co-wrote with drug trafficker Jon Roberts.

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