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Deborah Scroggins (November 27, 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American journalist and author. She heads the Research and Analysis Directorate, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.[1]
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| Born | November 27, 1961 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
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| Alma mater | Tulane University Columbia University |
Deborah Lane Scroggins[2] was born 27 November 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia,[3] as the daughter of Gloria (née Baker, a personnel agent) and Frank William Scroggins (a lawyer[4]).[5]
Scroggins graduated in the Class of 1978 at Chamblee High School.[2]
She is a graduate of Tulane University, B.A., 1982 and Columbia University, Master of International Affairs,[6] 1985.[5]
Scroggins received the ITT International Fellowship, Institute of International Education, 1982-1983, for a year of independent study, in Denmark.
She was a free-lance writer, for Inter Press Service, 1984-1985. She was an editor, United Nations Association of New York, in New York City, 1985-1987.[5]
She was a reporter and editor for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1987 to 1998,[3] and a foreign correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1988 to 1993.[1] She later served as assistant political editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[1]
She has written for Granta, The Independent, The Sunday Times Magazine, Vogue and other publications.[1]
Colin Campbell[7] and Deborah Scroggins won The Eric and Amy Burger Award 1988, from the Overseas Press Club of America, for "The Famine Weapon in the Horn of Africa".[8]
She won Georgia Author of the Year, 2003,[2][9] two Overseas Press Club Awards, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for her coverage of Africa and Asia, including Afghanistan.[1]
Her book Emma's War: An Aid Worker, Radical Islam and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in the Sudan[10][11][12][13] is about Emma McCune, a British aid worker who married Sudanese warlord Riek Machar. It won the 2003 Ron Ridenhour Award for Truth-Telling.[14][15][16]
Director Tony Scott had planned to direct a film based on the book and initial reports indicated that Nicole Kidman would star as McCune.[17] The project was in development at the time of Scott's death in 2012; its fate following Scott's death remains unclear.[18]
Scroggins has also written a second book: Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui,[19] an examination of the militant Islam movement through the lives of two women on opposite sides of the spectrum: Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui.[20][21][22][23]
Scroggins married Colin Campbell,[24][25][26][27][28][29][30] February 20, 1993.[5] They have two daughters.[5][31]
- Emma's War: An Aid Worker, a Warlord, Radical Islam, the Politics of Oil and Slaves — A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan. New York: Vintage. 2002. ISBN 9780307808851. OCLC 70772490.
- Wanted Women: Faith, Lies, and the War on Terror: The Lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui. Harper Collins. 17 January 2012. ISBN 9780062097958.
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